tilefigs.m

Display multiple figures simultaneously by tiling the screen with all open figures.

Description

The TILEFIGS program is used to display multiple figures simultaneously by tiling the screen with all open figures.
 
TILEFIGS usage: tilefigs ([nrows ncols],border_in pixels)

Restriction: maximum of 100 figure windows

Without arguments, tilefigs will determine the closest N x N grid for all open figures.
   
TILEFIGS has only been run under Matlab 5

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; Figure Management Utilities, SUBFIGURE
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 5.2 (R10)

[Dennis Dean]

It was exactly what I was looking for. Script will save me time. There are some constants embedded within the code that I needed to tweak. I would like to have seen the constants defined as variables at the top of the file

[Jay Simon]

A useful contribution, thanks.

[Linda Hamilton]

It seems that it doesn't tile the figures properly if I am using 19" TFT screen. Any suggestions?

[Stephan Lennartz]

good function,
works still under ML-R14 (Version 7.1..)!
Here's a little test-program for trying out:
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function test_tilefigs
%% test-function for tilefigs
% feel free to modify the constants
N=0; % counting index for creating figures
for R=(1:4); % Rows
    for C=(1:5) % Columns
       N=N+1; % count index starts with 1 and will not be incr finally
       figure (N); % create a number of figures
    end
end

%% CALL tilefigs, display for 5 s and remove the figures again
tilefigs ([R C],1); % R rows, C columns , 10 pixels border
pause(5); % wait 5 s
for indx=(1:N); close(figure(indx)); end
end % test-function

[Ben Abbott]

Did just what I wanted it to do.
I'm running MATLAB Version 7.2.0.283 (R2006a) on Mac OS 10.4.7.
This routine doesn't respect the dock, and since Matlab does, this creates problem when tiling 1 row of figures and filling the screen. For example,

>> tilefigs([1,N])

However, this problem is easily resolved by increasing the rows a bit :-)

>> tilefigs(1.1,N)

[Dimitri Shvorob]

Works even with Matlab 2008a, but not quite perfectly: figures overlap slightly.

[Tim]

Looks like it only works if figure units are pixels. Should check for actual units, save them, do tiling, then restore original units.
Should also allow a selection of figure handles to be passed, rather than always tiling all figures.

[Emery]

As mentioned earlier, there is a slight overlap issue in later revisions, but this is a minor issue. Thanks!

[Ben]

Good program!

To get rid of the figure overlap in later revisions of Matlab, just subtrac 30 from ylen. An easy way to do this is to change line 68 to:

set(hands(pnum),'Position',[ xpos ypos xlen ylen-30 ]); % move figure

[Logan]

Improvement, so that rows and cols are not limited to the same number (ie with 12 figures this will give you a 3x4 grid):

Change line 35 to
  ncols = ceil(numfigs/nrows);