Maximize window

Maximize window size to fill the entire screen. Has learning capability.

Description

Maximize the size of figures and GUIs to fill the entire screen.

The function was tested under the following conditions:
screen resolutions:
[800x600]
[1024x768]
[1152x864]
[1280x960]
Matlab version: R12, R13
OS: WinXP

The function was calibrated to handle WinXP standard toolbar (at the bottom of the screen, one icon row) and standard screen (4x3 ratio - not wide).

If you are using different settings, the maximized figure size could be wrong. If you find yourself in such a position, fear not. Run the function in 'calibrate' mode to calibrate the settings.

The application will ask you to maximize a figure window manually and use these settings as a reference from now on.

2005-03-21 update - contribution of Tim Myers
Maximize can set the image to fill any portion of the screen.

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

[Kousuke Miyahara]

Works as advertized. The only file I found here that makes the figure fill the entire screen. Even thought the figure is not "Maximized", the size and position are exactly the same.
Well done

[Brahim Hamadicharef]

Thanks for this !
I do often prefer FULL SCREEN !

Brahim

[Aaron Luttman]

This is exactly what I have needed for opening and closing a lot of different plot windows, since I always want them maximized. This is a nice easy way to do it, and it works exactly as it says.

[Marc Franco]

Works great. Good job!

[Jim Bean]

 

[Muni Gangabathina]

Cool. This is exactly what I wanted!

[Ugo Di Girolamo]

does not handle my office toolbar, though

[Tim Myers]

I tried a few different functions all claiming to do the same thing. This function is the only one that worked properly on all screen resolutions. Hopefully, Matlab will include this type of function in a near-term release.

[David Babineau]

Excellent! Very easy to use and handy.

[Alfredo Fernandez]

 

[Kai-Cheng Hu]

Thank you so much. It works properly on my PC . And I also learned some skills form your code(ex:an undocumented fig property-- ActivePositionProperty d). That is so perfect than I wrote.

[Kjetil Sæheim]

Thanks!

[Florian Weichert]

Really useful.

[Julie Meng]

Beautiful!!

[Kiran Misra]

Awesome .. saved my butt.

[yaniv the magnificent]

Tevorah :)
It was great...

thanks a lot.
Yaniv and Amit.

[Emma Peeling]

This is excellent... just what I need and works exactly as described

[Wenying Shou]

Nice!

[Junior JR]

Excellent

[Serge Thill]

Just for information, if the purpose is simply to maximse a window, these two lines (slightly modified from the Matlab help) should also do the job:
scrsz = get(0, 'ScreenSize');
figure('Position', [1 scrsz(4) scrsz(3) scrsz(4)]);

[James Huber]

Also, try it this way:

scrsz=get(0,'ScreenSize');
maxWindow=[1 31 scrsz(3) scrsz(4)-104];
%31 happens to be the pixel width of the task bar and 73 was the space required for the figure toolbar (73+31=104)
h=figure(17);
%choose any number that is available
set(h,'Name','MyGraphTitle','NumberTitle','off','Position',maxWindow)
%maxWindow is in the form [distance-from-left distance-from-bottom window-width window-height]

Also, you can find your maximized position this way:
figure(1);
%manually maximize the window with the mouse here
maxWindow=get(1,'Position')

You can deterimine the default window size this way:
get(0,'Position)

[Andranik Valedi]

Well done! Works just as a maximized window does, without the window being "maximized" in Windows terms.

[Brahim HAMADICHAREF]

You can also add

elseif screen(3) == 1680
   set(gcf,'Units','normalized','Position',[0.00 0.0267 1.0 0.9095])

works for me !

[Steven]

 

[Gautam Dugar]

 

[joo tan]

i try use this program..but failed..what the value for (h)? still confuse..help me