Hi, When you create a plot and hover over a data point WITHOUT pressing anything a datatip is displayed. How do I change the callback to display something else or do something else?

figure

plot(1:10, '.-')

Answer 1

[Cameron B]

N = 30;
yy = ceil(rand(N,1)*50);
xx = 1:N;
str = cell(1,N);
for pp = 1:N
    str{pp} = sprintf('Sample %d',pp);
end
reer = plot(xx,yy,'-o');
sadf = dataTipTextRow('ID =',str);
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(end+1:end+2) = sadf;
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(3) = reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(1);
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(1) = reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(4);
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows = reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(1:3);
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(2).Label = 'Your Y Data =';
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(3).Label = 'Your X Data =';
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(4).Label = 'Whatever';

Just an example.

[Imraan Ibrahim]

Hi Cameron B,

Thank you for getting back to me.

I tried your example out and it is almost everything I need.

To progress that further, is it possible to have a callback function do some something outside of the plot, for example have the datapoint I am hovering over be displayed on a uitable?

I know you can have a 'ButtonDownFcn' callback for datatips, but I don't want to be clicking the mouse button, just hovering over.

Are there any events I can be listening to that may be related to DataTipTemplate?

Regards

Imraan

[Cameron B]

function [C] = movebuttonfunc()

N = 30;
yy = ceil(rand(N,1)*50);
xx = 1:N;
str = cell(1,N);
for pp = 1:N
    str{pp} = sprintf('Sample %d',pp);
end
reer = plot(xx,yy,'-o');
sadf = dataTipTextRow('ID =',str);
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(end+1:end+2) = sadf;
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(3) = reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(1);
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(1) = reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(4);
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows = reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(1:3);
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(2).Label = 'Your Y Data =';
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(3).Label = 'Your X Data =';
reer.DataTipTemplate.DataTipRows(4).Label = 'Whatever';

fig2 = uifigure;
holder = [0,0];
tab = uitable(fig2,'Data',holder,'ColumnName',{'X Coord','Y Coord'});
set (gcf, 'WindowButtonMotionFcn', {@mouseMove,tab});

    function mouseMove (src,event,tab)
        C = get (gca, 'CurrentPoint');
        title(gca, ['(X,Y) = (', num2str(C(1,1)), ', ',num2str(C(1,2)), ')']);
        MousePt = [C(1,1),C(1,2)];
        tab.Data = MousePt;
    end

end