Programmatic UI Toolbar Issues/Questions: rotate3d does not refresh until un-clicked + others

I am including my MWE below (requires GUI layout toolbox). I have a programmatic UI that will do a scatter3 plot in one section. I have included the figure toolbar so that I might be able to zoom and rotate the scatter plot. This lead to several questions, of which I have found only partial answers in the documentation/forums. I am asking them all here since the same MWE should function for all questions.

1) When I use the rotate3d tool from the menu bar, and then rotate my plot, the plot disappears and does not refresh. It will reappear once I have deselected the rotate3d uitoggle. Why? How can I avoid this? It really ruins the usefulness of rotating my scatter plot. Note that this still happens when accessing rotate3d programmatically: e.g. rotate3d(gui.ViewAxes), so building my own custom toolbar will not fix this.

Now, the plot also disappears when I hit the colorbar button, and reappears when deselected. Which leads to the next two questions:

(2) I want to eliminate a bunch of the buttons from the toolbar but keep zoom, pan, and rotate3d. This is simple in GUIDE, but I wish to do it programmatically. Is the only way really to either A) build an entire custom toolbar or B) go through the whole findall/delete procedure for every unwanted button?

(3) The toolbar really should be attached to the plot axes, not the full figure. I know I have read some Jan Simon responses that this is not possible, though there are some FEX workarounds. However, I may wind up with multiple axes on the same UI which I want to save as e.g. .png files independently. The save pushbutton currently saves the entire figure. I would nominally want a save button for each individual axes. I do not like the idea of opening a new figure for every single axes if the controls and both axes are closely related.

Please, no responses suggesting I go back to GUIDE.

Thanks!

MWE below.

 function gui = guiTest
gui = struct();

 % Initialize Window
scrsz = get(groot,'ScreenSize');
gui.Window = figure( ...
    'Name', 'A Test Window', ...
    'NumberTitle', 'off', ...
    'MenuBar', 'none', ...
    'Toolbar', 'Figure', ...
    'HandleVisibility', 'off',...
    'OuterPosition', [3*scrsz(4)/4 scrsz(4)/2 scrsz(3)/2 scrsz(4)/2]);

 % Create Main Layout
mainLayout = uiextras.HBoxFlex(...
    'Parent',gui.Window,...
    'Spacing',3);

 % Left Side Control Panel
controlPanel = uiextras.BoxPanel(...
    'Parent',mainLayout,...
    'Title','Controls go here');

 % Right Side Plotting

 gui.ViewPanel = uiextras.BoxPanel(...
    'Parent', mainLayout,...
    'Title','Axes Panel Name');

 % Relative sizes of main layout sections
set(mainLayout, 'Sizes', [-1 -2]);

 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 %Right Side Plotting %
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
gui.ViewAxes = axes(...
    'Parent',gui.ViewPanel);

 X = rand(100,1); Y = rand(100,1); Z = rand(100,1);

 scatter3(X,Y,Z,'Parent',gui.ViewAxes); axis(gui.ViewAxes, 'equal');
  end

[D. Plotnick]

Note, Robert helpfully reminded me to switch my 'HandleVisibility' back to 'on' regarding some other issues I had been having with this MWE. That does not solve the rotate3d issue.

Answer 1

[D. Plotnick]

Ok, so I have a kludged together solution that I am going with for now. If anyone else has a better idea, please let me know.

The issue is the azimuth/elevation numeric readout. In a vanilla Matlab figure it displays as a tiny bar in the bottom left hand corner of the plot, and only while the mouse is depressed. It creates the Az/El indicator using a uicontrol, which the GUI Layout Toolbox interprets as I should have expected. Using BoxPanel as I did above, rotate3d superposes the numeric readout on top of the actual scatterplot.

This can be solved by saving a custom rotate3d tool that simply comments out line 456 of the original; 'localCreateAzElIndicator'. I may modify it further in future so that it appears parented to the axes, not to the figure, but this method works fine for now.