no more fullcrosshair cursor???

I really liked the fullcrosshair cursor! Why was it removed? Is there a replacement? I had several Matlab GUIs that used full crosshair cursors. What replaced the fullcrosshair cursor?

[per isakson]

Me too. That's bad news!

Based on the approach of plot crosshairs by Darren Weber it might be possible to achieve the same end.

[kscott2k]

Hi. Thanks for the response. I will look at the solution you pointed out. Thanks for that... I still would like to know why they took away the fullcrosshair and what they suggest to replace it.

[per isakson]

I guess they removed it because the implementation was "special" and there were some "issues". For examples, it sometimes left traces in the form of static vertical and horizontal lines. I never found a better way to clear these lines than redrawing the entire figure.

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[Image Analyst]

What function are you talking about? ginput() still has the "cursor" that is full - virtually the whole figure.

[kscott2k]

Hi. Thanks for the response. To illustrate what I mean, look below at what I clipped from Matlab command line...

figure;plot(rand(1,100));

set(gcf,'Pointer','fullcrosshair');
Warning: Full crosshair pointer is no longer supported.
A crosshair pointer will be used instead.

this works below...

set(gcf,'Pointer','arrow');
set(gcf,'Pointer','crosshair');