glinkaxes: interactive linkaxes

GLINKAXES lets user, via mouse clicks, to choose the axes to synchronize their axis limits.

Description

GLINKAXES is a wrapper function for the built-in LINKAXES function. Prior to calling LINKAXES function, GLINKAXES accepts user mouse clicks to select axes to synchronize.

There are 4 possible ways to call this function:

GLINKAXES or GLINKAXES(OPTION) to choose as many axes as desired (terminate selection by pressing ENTER key with the focus on a figure window).

GLINKAXES(N) or GLINKAXES(N,OPTION) to choose (up to) N axes. Press ENTER key for less than N.

OPTION argument is directly passed to LINKAXES and must be one of 'x','y','xy',or 'none'.

This function works on Matlab R2008a or later. (It uses a OnCleanup function which is introduced in R2008a.)

Revision:
Rev.1 (4/14/11) - GLINKAXES(OPTION) calling option parsing bug fix

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.10 (2010a)
• Other requirements: MATLAB R2008a or later required for OnCleanup function.

[Riccardo]

The function does not seem to behave correctly

I tested it with the following code:

% ------------------------------------------
close all
figure(1)
set(gcf,'windowStyle','docked') % --- undock

Nrows = 2;
Ncols = 2;
fontSize = 14;
h_fig = zeros(Nrows*Ncols,1);
for chartNo = 1:Nrows*Ncols
   h_fig(chartNo) = subplot(Nrows,Ncols,chartNo);
   grid on
   hold on
   set(gca,'box','on')
   set(gca,'fontSize',fontSize)
   xlabel('Common X label []')
   ylabel('Common Y label []')
   title('Common Title')
   switch chartNo
      case 1
         plot(1*(1:100),1*(1:100).^2)
      case 2
         plot(1*(1:100),2*(1:100).^2)
      case 3
         plot(1*(1:100),3*(1:100).^2)
      case 4
         plot(4*(1:100),4*(1:100).^2)
   end
end

% ------------------------------------------

I have Matlab 2010b on windows 7 x64.

I first ran the script above to set up several axes

Then I ran glinkaxes several times clicking on 3 axes and then hitting return.

The function works correctly when I run it the first time.

for each subsequent time it does not wait for a mouse click but it returns directly to the command window.

This function is potentially very useful is if works reliably.

Could you please have a go at fixing it?

Many Thanks

[sapientia]