Petition to bring back Plot Browser!
I can not understand why Plot Browser was taken away in latest Matlab... I use Plot Browser all of the time! Having to find and click the particular line I want in a plot with a lot of lines is way less convenient than just selecting it in the Plot Browser. Also, being able to quickly hide/show multiple lines at once with the plot browser was so helpful in a lot of cases. Please bring Plot Browser back!!!! Please reply with support for this if you feel the same as I do!
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Please use Plot Inspector instead. Here is how.
Unfortunately, this won't work at all:
- Plot browser allowed rapid selection and hiding of lines by a color-coded list without having to try to select the line froma plot (challenging with many elements overlaid in a tight area)
- Plot browser allowed docked figures with a menubar complete with custom commands, while the new Figures container will refuse the docking of any figure with a menubar
- On that note: there was ONE plot browser that applied to all docked figures. Now there are two "docked" containers: one for simple figures, and one for non-compliant figures with menus or other attributes. The latter can not be undocked as a single, tabbed window from the Editor/Desktop interface. This is a mess with some of our applications.
The Property Inspector has always been around. If you really believed that was an equivalent tool, then why do you think we were all using the Plot Browser? Sure, the bicycle seems equivalent to a car if you are willing to put enough effort into it, but we're still going to be pretty sore about having the car taken away.
Thanks for this, I understand that property inspector is still available, but it is not functionally equivalent. I have plots with many more lines on it that the simple example above. Finding and selecting the line I want to select was easy in Plot Browser, but is impossible without it. Changing the hide/show status on many lines at once was easy with Plot Browser, but is cumbersome at best without it.
I've suggested a workaround that might satisfy some of the missing functionality from the Plot Browser with the legend instead in this post. There are limitatoins to that workaround and I acknowledge isn't going to check all the boxes but I am interested if there is additoinal functionality Legend could provide in this area.
I understand what you mean now. Thanks.
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