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Help with MATLAB GUI/selecting points

Hi all,

Here's a problem I'm having trouble figuring out:

I display a high-resolution image using imscrollpanel. For instance, consider the MATLAB example:
        hFig = figure('Toolbar','none','Menubar','none');
        hIm = imshow('saturn.png');
        hSP = imscrollpanel(hFig,hIm);
        set(hSP,'Units','normalized','Position',[0 .1 1 .9])
 
        % Add a magnification box and an overview tool
        hMagBox = immagbox(hFig,hIm);
        pos = get(hMagBox,'Position');
        set(hMagBox,'Position',[0 0 pos(3) pos(4)])
        imoverview(hIm)

I now need to select points in the displayed image - but using getpts or ginput doesn't work, because it's selecting points from the entire figure, and not just the scrollable area of the image, which is what I'm looking for. Does anyone have an idea of how to get around this?

Thanks.

As a quick follow up - I know this can be done, because 'cpselect' does exactly this. However, I can't directly use cpselect, due to the data I'm working with.

"Blackadder Ray" <blackadder.ray@gmail.com> wrote in message <gi1snq$p50$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> As a quick follow up - I know this can be done, because 'cpselect' does exactly this. However, I can't directly use cpselect, due to the data I'm working with.

what about creating a transparent axes over the top of the imscrollpanel axes which is the same size and then using ginput on the overlayed axes? you would then need to interpret the coordinate points and refer them to the actual image.

"Dave Brackett" <davebrackett@hotmail.com> wrote in message <gi3sp5$7ir$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Blackadder Ray" <blackadder.ray@gmail.com> wrote in message <gi1snq$p50$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > As a quick follow up - I know this can be done, because 'cpselect' does exactly this. However, I can't directly use cpselect, due to the data I'm working with.
>
> what about creating a transparent axes over the top of the imscrollpanel axes which is the same size and then using ginput on the overlayed axes? you would then need to interpret the coordinate points and refer them to the actual image.

Thanks - I did think of that, but I still have the problem that the image is scrollable - so I'm not sure how to handle that properly :(

"Blackadder Ray" <blackadder.ray@gmail.com> wrote in message <gi419i$8uv$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Dave Brackett" <davebrackett@hotmail.com> wrote in message <gi3sp5$7ir$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > "Blackadder Ray" <blackadder.ray@gmail.com> wrote in message <gi1snq$p50$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > > As a quick follow up - I know this can be done, because 'cpselect' does exactly this. However, I can't directly use cpselect, due to the data I'm working with.
> >
> > what about creating a transparent axes over the top of the imscrollpanel axes which is the same size and then using ginput on the overlayed axes? you would then need to interpret the coordinate points and refer them to the actual image.
>
> Thanks - I did think of that, but I still have the problem that the image is scrollable - so I'm not sure how to handle that properly :(

this is pretty much the same as the question asked here:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/240813#616753

"matt dash" <n.a@mail.com> wrote in message <gi4h5n$pnm$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Blackadder Ray" <blackadder.ray@gmail.com> wrote in message <gi419i$8uv$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > "Dave Brackett" <davebrackett@hotmail.com> wrote in message <gi3sp5$7ir$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > > "Blackadder Ray" <blackadder.ray@gmail.com> wrote in message <gi1snq$p50$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > > > As a quick follow up - I know this can be done, because 'cpselect' does exactly this. However, I can't directly use cpselect, due to the data I'm working with.
> > >
> > > what about creating a transparent axes over the top of the imscrollpanel axes which is the same size and then using ginput on the overlayed axes? you would then need to interpret the coordinate points and refer them to the actual image.
> >
> > Thanks - I did think of that, but I still have the problem that the image is scrollable - so I'm not sure how to handle that properly :(
>
> this is pretty much the same as the question asked here:
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/240813#616753
>

Thanks!