Useful Figure Management Utilities

Version 1.4.0.2 (4.06 KB) by Michelle Hirsch
Simple utilities for managing the positioning of bunch of on-screen figure windows in MATLAB.
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This package contains 3 trivial figure management utilities I can't live without:
SHOWMETHEFIGS Allow user to cycle between all figures by hitting any key
FIGSHIFT Cascades current figure window away from previous figure
FILLSCREEN Set a figure size to completely fill the screen. NOTE: There's a better version built into MATLAB since R2018a. Just set the WindowState property to 'maximized'

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Michelle Hirsch (2026). Useful Figure Management Utilities (https://github.com/michellehirsch/MATLAB-Figure-Utilities), GitHub. Retrieved .

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Created with R2019b
Compatible with any release
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Inspired: Figure Management Utilities, Lynx MATLAB Toolbox

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Version Published Release Notes
1.4.0.2

Moved code to GitHub
1.4.0.1

Updated license
1.4.0.0

Updated to work with R2014b (should still work with previous versions, too). Also now available as a snazzy Toolbox file which is super-easy to install (requires R2014b).
1.3.0.0

Removed mistaken attribution.
1.2.0.0

Update copyright.
1.1.0.0

Updated copyright.
1.0.0.0

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