Thread Subject: Access and manipulate figure via OOP?

Howdy all!

Is there a way to access a figure and manipulate it via object-oriented programming means?
I'm aware that you can pass the handle to 'get(...)' and 'set(...)', but I was wondering if I would be able to access it directly as an instance of, say, a 'Figure' class.

Something akin to accessing 'datacursormode' in this manner:

dc = datacursormode;
dc.Enable = 'on'; % Not exactly sure if this usage is right though...
disp('Click something');
pause;
index = dc.getCursorInfo().DataIndex; % or .Position

"Eric " <eacousineau+mathworks@gmail.com> wrote in message <i8p19b$i45$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Howdy all!
>
> Is there a way to access a figure and manipulate it via object-oriented programming means?
> I'm aware that you can pass the handle to 'get(...)' and 'set(...)', but I was wondering if I would be able to access it directly as an instance of, say, a 'Figure' class.
>
> Something akin to accessing 'datacursormode' in this manner:
>
> dc = datacursormode;
> dc.Enable = 'on'; % Not exactly sure if this usage is right though...
> disp('Click something');
> pause;
> index = dc.getCursorInfo().DataIndex; % or .Position

With documemented Matlab - NO.

I would guess that if it is not described at http://undocumentedmatlab.com there is no undocumented way either.

You could certainly wrap handle grafic controls in user defined classes.

/ per

"Eric " <eacousineau+mathworks@gmail.com> wrote in message <i8p19b$i45$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Howdy all!
>
> Is there a way to access a figure and manipulate it via object-oriented programming means?
> I'm aware that you can pass the handle to 'get(...)' and 'set(...)', but I was wondering if I would be able to access it directly as an instance of, say, a 'Figure' class.
>
> Something akin to accessing 'datacursormode' in this manner:
>
> dc = datacursormode;
> dc.Enable = 'on'; % Not exactly sure if this usage is right though...
> disp('Click something');
> pause;
> index = dc.getCursorInfo().DataIndex; % or .Position


hFig = figure(...); % regular figure handle
hhFig = handle(hFig); % handle to a figure class instance
hhFig.Color = 'r';

Yair Altman
http://UndocumentedMatlab.com