moveplot.m

Enables mouse-based on-screen manipulation of Plot data

Description

Enable this function on a line object (such as a product of the plot function) to allow graphical manipulation of data on-screen: click on a point and drag it anywhere on the axes. Dragging off the axes results in an enlargement of the axes. moveplot can be called with arguments to allow 2-d motion, or motion restricted to only the x or y axis. Moveplot cleans up after itself.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; moveplot2.m, smoothplot.m, ZoomBox
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.0 (R12)
• Other requirements: Tested only on Win 2k. Functionality does not depend on Matlab R12.

[Angel Ezquerra]

Very useful. No more need to "manually" edit plots using get and set 'xdata' and 'ydata'. Cool stuff!

[John Van Workum]

Works great! Really tight code with some neat programming idioms.

[peter scott]

excellent piece of code, saved me so much work!!!

[Andy Diamond]

This thing just saved by b*tt. It does what it says, it works great. In constant use.
Thank you.

FYI, I did have to make one adjustment though because it wouldn't let me adjust a line plot which overlay an image because on line 63 get(h,'zdata') wasn't empty. Test probably meant for 3d plot. Commented out those lines for my purposes, worked great.

Falsifying my results, which I used to consider a chore, is suddenly a pleasure.

Thanks buddy.

[Berthold Kaeferstein]

Good thing to get the data "right". A pleasure to use!

[Steve H]

Awesome. Saved me a ton of time.
Thanks!

[Yuval Cohen]

Awesome !! Works perfectly. I use it all the time. Very nice code. Thanks

[Brian D]

Great tool. I was about to write the same thing, glad I looked first

[Alessandro Bortolon]

Great, simple and useful for save time in a lot of occasions. Thank you

[Olivier Salvado]

perfect

[Suresh Joel]

Works great! Saves a lot of time! Thanks a ton!

[Suresh Joel]

 

[Humberto Filho]

 

[Derek Goring]

This is a very useful piece of code, neatly written. I was able to hack it to do what I wanted very easily (draw vertical lines on a spectrum and slide them backwards and forwards horizontally to delineate the range for fitting a line thru the data).

[subbarao vemula]

this is very useful function for my post-flight analysis software that i have developed using matlab. i am looking for the ways to enhance features of this tools. moveplot.m would definitely give an add to my tool.

[senthil kumar]

good for movie plot

[senthil kumar]

allways perfect

[omidy ostova]

 

[Sebastien Montet]

Spot on what I wanted.

[Tran DiepCam]

You've done well

[Rami Neseem]

very useful thanks

[Perico de los Palotes]

Muy util

[Pablo Sebastian]

Great function. Just what i needed....

[Peter Manley-Cooke]

Brilliant. All I need now is a flag to tell if the data has been changed.

[Kushsairy]

Hi
I would like to know how to read the new data point from the function(where is the point stored). Coz i need to pass the new point to my next function

[Waldemar]

Nice function, I love it!

Hi Kushsairy and others,

just get the data out of the plot after moveplot like this:
x = get(h,'XData'); y = get(h,'YData');