Figure control widget
Especially useful for 3d renderings, this widget allows the user to intuitively rotate, pan and zoom any axes within a figure using key presses and mouse gestures. Additionally, link several axes to move synchronously, press q to quit the widget, r (or double-click) to reset the current axes and escape to close the figure.
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Oliver Woodford (2020). Figure control widget (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/38019-figure-control-widget), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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Great program
I had to add the following code immediately after the camdolly function is called in order to get the fcw_zoomz to work though (after line 352).
camva(get(cax,'cameraviewangle')*(1+d))
Kevin: I designed fcw to be called on a figure once all the axes have been created and populated. The behaviour on axes that are created after fcw is called is undefined. I should put this in the help text.
It appears fixed by pressing 'r' i.e. reset which can also be achieved through:
% Reset all the axes
for h = findobj(fig, 'Type', 'axes','-depth',1)'
camview(h, get(h, 'UserData'));
end
Thanks Oliver. Not sure if the following is a bug, but I tried to call fcw before actually plotting anything in the figure window e.g.:
clear; close all; clc;
h=figure;
fcw(h,{'pan','rot','zoomz','zoomz'});
surf(peaks(25)); axis equal; axis tight; axis vis3d;
That works, but if I leave out "axis vis3d" this will pan and zoom at the same time for left click. This effect is also gone if I use:
clear; close all; clc;
h=figure;
surf(peaks(25)); axis equal; axis tight; axis vis3d;
fcw(h,{'pan','rot','zoomz','zoomz'});
i.e. call fcw after actually plotting something (fcw probably turns axis vis3d on as well?).
Kevin
Kevin: Yes! Please retain the license & copyright info etc. and label it as included on the GIBBON fex page. Thanks.
Can't believe I stuck with the standard view manipulation for so long. This is great stuff! Could I add this to http://www.gibboncode.org/?
Kevin
cant open the camera?
Smooth and easy to use. I like that the right button pans.
This widget is absolutely fantastic - rotation of 3D data is far more intuitive than with the default controls. I no longer visualise any 3D data without it. Thank you.
Good stuff.