Graphics

Accessing All Object Properties -- Property Inspector

The Property Editor enables you to change the most commonly used object properties. If you want to access all object properties, use the Property Inspector. To display the Property Inspector, click the Inspect button on any Property Editor panel. The following picture shows the Property Inspector displaying the properties of the same lineseries object as that in the previous picture.

For descriptions of the properties of graphics objects, use the Graphics Property Browser.

Accessing Objects You Cannot Click

If you want to access the properties of light or uicontextmenus objects, you need to get the handle using MATLAB commands, because you cannot click on these objects.

For example, to get the handles of all light objects in the current axes, use findobj.

• h = findobj(gca,'Type','light');
  

Then use the inspect command to display the Property Inspector.

• inspect(h)    % Inspect all light objects
  inspect(h(1)) % Inspect the first light object in list
  

The Property Editor

Example -- Working with Plotting Tools

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