showplottool

(Removed) Show or hide specified plot tool

showplottool has been removed. Use plotedit or the Property Inspector instead.

Syntax

showplottool(tool)

showplottool(state,tool)

showplottool(fig,___)

Description

showplottool(tool) shows the specified plot tool on the current figure. If no current figure exists, showplottool creates one.

showplottool(state,tool) changes the state of the specified plot tool on the current figure.

showplottool(fig,___) operates on the specified figure instead of the current figure. The input fig can precede any of the input argument combinations in the previous syntaxes.

Examples

Open Specified Plot Tool

Show the Property Editor on a figure by calling the showplottool function. The tool opens in the same configuration as last time you invoked the tool.

plot(1:10);
showplottool("propertyeditor")

Input Arguments

tool — Plot tool

"figurepalette" | "plotbrowser" | "propertyeditor"

Plot tool, specified as one of these values:

• "figurepalette" — Operate on the Figure Palette.

• "plotbrowser" — Operate on the Plot Browser.

• "propertyeditor" — Operate on the Property Editor.

state — Plot tool state

"on" | "off" | "toggle"

Plot tool state, specified as one of these values:

• "on" — Show plot tool.

• "off" — Hide plot tool.

• "toggle" — Switch the plot tool state between the "on" and "off" states.

fig — Target figure

Figure object

Target figure, specified as a Figure object. Use fig to show or hide the plot tool on a specific figure instead of the current figure.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

R2025a: Removed

The showplottool function has been removed.

• For syntaxes opening the Figure Palette, use the plotedit function instead.

• For syntaxes opening the Property Editor, use inspect to launch the Property Inspector instead.

• For syntaxes opening the Plot Browser, use inspect to launch the Property Inspector instead and expand the first line in the Property Inspector to view the object hierarchy.