maximize

Maximize a figure window from the command line.

Description

Uses an undocumented figure property to maximize a figure window in a hardware independent way.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; subfig
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.5 (R13)

[Henk Luinge]

Usefull! Changes figure size to entire screen, but does not maximize it in the ms-windows sense.

[Jérôme Bastianelli]

it's only a change of the size inside Matlab (three lines of command), but it does not make what happen when you click on the "maximize" square on the right top of a windows window.

[Angel Zeitoune]

Work fine to me, but does not maximize really the window

[THomas Rebotier]

MAximizing in the Windows sense appears to be impossible in Matlab. Either it should be a figure property, or there should be status-sniffing of the get(0,'ScreenSize') property, but that would discard the taskbar. I use a right hand vertical taskbar on a wide screen, other users in the group either followed me or kept the bottom task bar. I can't make figures fir everybody's screen. Bummer.

[Igor de Vries]

doesn't do the same as pressing the "maximize" button and doesn't take the size of the taskbar into consideration.

[Chris Jones]

Seems to work fine - much better than the (0,'ScreenSize') method.

[Noelmir Castro]

Works fine.

[Samuel Pichardo]

Under R2006a and CentOS 5 (Gnome) it has the same behavior than the maximize button.

[Jose The Dude]

It works fine.

I usually use a taskbar with two rows of buttons, in this case it is not exactly the same as clicking the maximize button, but I can stand it.

[John Smith]

handy

[Nicolas BERCHER]

Just what I was looking for (working good under Linux/Fedora/KDE & Matlab R13)!

[Gili rosenberg]

Worked for me, thanks!

[Buuk Delft]

Works great!

[O P]

works good on Linux, debian matlab 7.4

[A V]

Works for me...R2007a

[Diego Torquemada]

works in Matlab 2007b, under Linux

[Johannes Korsawe]

Sometimes just the small features are a great help...thank you for finding this.

[Edgar Guevara]

Simple and very useful

[Andrew Tan]

Thank you!

[Jim Alanoly]

Very useful... thank you. Couple of improvements:

1. When you set the "outerposition" property, the figure's "ActivePositionProperty" automtically changes. So you need to remember what it was, and then reset it later, as you do with "units" property.

2. On Windows, the maximized figure window is obscured by the taskbar at the bottom... (31 pixels on XP and Vista). So, you may want to get the screensize and adjust the "outerposition" proportionately. E.g., for a screen with vertical resolution of 1050, for "outerposition," I will have [0, 31/1050, 1, (1050-31)/1050].

[Alex Leung]

Simple but Perfect!

[Reza Farrahi Moghaddam]

Very helpful.

[Kevin Conrad]

Very useful.

[Stephen Andrews]

Does what I want it to. Saves time. Fun!

[Julian Ehlers]

set(gcf,'Units','normalized', 'WindowStyle','docked','OuterPosition',[0 0 1 1]); will maximize the figure in a way that is analagous to hitting the 'maximize' button in windows.

[Jamuna]

compiled matlab GUI with maximize function in linux,
throws warning "File is empty" at runtime in linux.
Help ?????????????