Figure window placement - fig.m

Function fig.m opens figure window on coded place of the screen.

Description

Function fig.m is prepared for fast positioning of a figure windows on screen by means of the window position code. The general positioning is also possible. Position codes belong to parts of the screen as follows:

 1 top left
 2 top right
 3 bottom left
 4 bottom right
 5 full screen
 6 left half
 7 right half
 8 upper half
 9 lower half
10 user defined position

The other way to define general position of a figure window is via the position vector of normalized measures [left bottom width height].
It obtains the position code equal 10.

 Function calling:
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  fih = fig(pos); % Creates a figure window and its handle
  pos is a position code of the figure, or a vector of four real elements <= 1 = position measures
  fih is a handle of the figure

 Examples:
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  hf = fig([.25, .25, .5, .5]); % figure in the center of the screen
  fig(2); % figure window in the right upper quarter of the screen
  fig(10); % last user's figure position (here in the screen center)

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7 (R14)

[Kelly K]

The program works well, but unecessarily changes the DefaultFigureUnits property to 'normalized'. This will cause problems when running other code that does not anticipate this change (most of my scripts and functions expect the default to be pixels, and therefore all figures in those scripts are displayed incorrectly after a single use of fig.m).

[Miroslav Balda]

The superfluous property 'normalized' has been removed and the code slightly modified. It should work well.