Is it possible to easily disable default interactivity for all axes?

Previous staff-provided answers indicated that the code snippet

set(groot, 'defaultAxesCreateFcn', @(ax,~) disableDefaultInteractivity(ax))

in startup.m would disable the default interactivity for all axes. This seems simple and practical. However, when using more recent versions of Matlab (e.g. R2020a) this no longer seems to work - the default interactivity will still be active in all figures, even if the axes creation function is adjusted as shown above. The code described here apparently works, but seems like a far more complicated way to achieve the same result. Is there a simpler / more direct way to do this in more recent versions of Matlab?

Answer 1

[Animesh]

For R2020b and later versions, the following command can be put in the “startup.m” file to disable the interactivity in plots.

set(groot,'defaultAxesCreateFcn', @(ax,~) set(ax,'Interactions',[])); 

[G. Sparks]

Ah, I think I see part of my problem now - this answer works as desired on standard Matlab plot functions, but I spend a lot of time using a third-party toolbox (MTEX) that has a bunch of custom plotting functions, and it doesn't work on those. Not sure there's a good solution for the latter issue.