Browsing through figures, without opening them all

Hi!

I often print/save figures in png-format or similar, in order to be able to quickly browser through results, either using a photoviewer-program or plotting them into a pdf. However, In the the matlab-figures i usually include hidden data in for example lines and buttons/functions which I would be interested in accessing when browsing through them. (ex. buttondownfunctions on lines etc.)

I'm wondering if there is a way of browsing trough .fig files in a fast way, without opening them each separately?

Regards

Peter

Answer 1

[Voss]

You can use load to inspect .fig files programmatically:

f = figure();
plot(1:10,'ButtonDownFcn','disp(''ok'')');
saveas(f,'1.fig')
delete(f);

ff = load('1.fig','-mat')

ff = struct with fields:
    hgS_070000: [1×1 struct]
    hgM_070000: [1×1 struct]

ff.hgS_070000

ans = struct with fields:
          type: 'figure'
        handle: 1
    properties: [1×1 struct]
      children: [1×1 struct]
       special: []

ff.hgS_070000.children

ans = struct with fields:
          type: 'axes'
        handle: 11.0002
    properties: [1×1 struct]
      children: [1×1 struct]
       special: [4×1 double]

ff.hgS_070000.children(1).children(1)

ans = struct with fields:
          type: 'graph2d.lineseries'
        handle: 22.0002
    properties: [1×1 struct]
      children: []
       special: []

ff.hgS_070000.children(1).children(1).properties

ans = struct with fields:
                 XData: [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
             XDataMode: 'auto'
                 YData: [1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10]
                 Color: [0 0.4470 0.7410]
             ColorMode: 'auto'
        DimensionNames: {'X'  'Y'  'Z'}
    DimensionNamesMode: 'auto'
         ButtonDownFcn: 'disp('ok')'
           SeriesIndex: 1
       SeriesIndexMode: 'auto'
       ApplicationData: [1×1 struct]

ff.hgS_070000.children(1).children(1).properties.ButtonDownFcn

ans = 'disp('ok')'

[Peter]

Hi and thank you for your answer!

I don't think that is what I'm looking for, since for now, my actions will be based on what i see in the picture.

For example, one (out of hundreds) figure may contain 100 lines. If a line looks suspicious, I want to load/execute certain functions based on the data contained within the line object.

In lack of other ideas I may need to create a interactive GUI for this.

Regards

Peter