Property Inspector

Open Property Inspector

Description

The Property Inspector enables you to interactively modify objects, such as graphics objects. When you select an object, the Property Inspector shows a list of object properties. You can change property values by editing the fields that appear next to each property name.

Open the Property Inspector

Figure: On the Format tab of the figure, in the Enable section, enable plot edit mode by clicking Select & Plot Edit. Then, in the Inspect section, click More Properties.
MATLAB^® command prompt: Enter inspect.

Examples

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Modify Graphics Objects Properties

Use the Property Inspector to change the transparency of a surface plot and to change the font size of the axes text.

Create a surface plot and open the Property Inspector. Then, view the surface properties in the Property Inspector by clicking the surface. Use the inspect function to enable plot edit mode and open the Property Inspector.

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A surface plot is on the left with the surface selected, and the Property Inspector is on the right and displays the names and editable values of surface properties.

Change the value of the FaceAlpha property to 0.5. The surface plot updates so that it is semitransparent.

Then, select the axes. To select the axes, you can click the axes directly in the figure or you can expand the first line labeled Figure 1 > Axes in the Property Inspector and select the axes object from the tree. Then, change the value of the FontSize property to 14 and the FontWeight property to bold.

A semitransparent surface plot with larger, bold axes text is on the left with the axes selected, and the Property Inspector is on the right and displays the names and editable values of axes properties.

Programmatic Use

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`inspect`

inspect opens the Property Inspector for the current figure, if one exists. To view properties for a specific object in the figure, select the object.

If no figures exist, then this command opens an empty Property Inspector.

`inspect(obj)`

inspect(obj) displays the properties for the specified object. You can specify obj as a single object or as a vector containing multiple objects, such as [obj1 obj2]. If you specify multiple objects, then the Property Inspector displays the properties that the objects have in common.

`inspect -close`

inspect -close closes the Property Inspector.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a