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How to add a “tutorial message div” to figures?
After installing R2018b, the first figure I opened contained an interesting message (shown in blue):
The reason it's interesting is because it contains features like text wrapping, transparency, the fact that the image maintains a constant width even though the text resizes (this reminded me of CSS3 flexbox, hence the tag), etc.
The last part of the animation is in slow motion, to better show how the div's size follows that of the figure.
In case it matters, I'm using Win 10 v1803.
Question:
I'd like to know how we can draw similar, custom, divs (for a lack of a better word) in our figures. (It's important to stress that this is not a UIFigure!)
What I found so far:
The Learn More link opens the page:
web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/creating_plots/interactively-explore-plotted-data.html'))
yet breakpoints in the entry points of either
webordocroot(or evendoc) aren't hit.
Assuming that this element is a
Childof the figure, I attempted to locate a handle to it:
>> set(gcf,'MenuBar','none'); findall(gcf)
ans =
22×1 graphics array:
Figure (1)
ContextMenu
AnnotationPane
Axes
AxesToolbar
Text
Text
Text
ToolbarStateButton (Brush/Select Data)
ToolbarStateButton (Data Tips)
ToolbarStateButton (Rotate 3-D)
ToolbarStateButton (Pan)
ToolbarStateButton (Zoom In)
ToolbarStateButton (Zoom Out)
ToolbarPushButton (Restore View)
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
however, making these controls invisible using
set(h(2:end), 'Visible', false)didn't make the div disappear.
Saving the figure as
.figor generating code for it, doesn't leave any trace of this div.When
uiinspect-ing the figure, this div doesn't show (or at least, I couldn't find it).I don't know what exactly I did to make it reappear once more, but since it's set to appear on the very first time you boot R2018b, I suspect deleting
prefdir(obviously, after backing it up) and restarting MATLAB could bring it back.- The only thing I didn't try yet, is to attach a java debugger to MATLAB and attempt to trace the caller to
com.mathworks.mlservices.MLHelpServices.setCurrentLocation(frommlservices.jar), which opens the help browser.
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After installing R2018b, the first figure I opened contained an interesting message (shown in blue):
The reason it's interesting is because it contains features like text wrapping, transparency, the fact that the image maintains a constant width even though the text resizes (this reminded me of CSS3 flexbox, hence the tag), etc.
The last part of the animation is in slow motion, to better show how the div's size follows that of the figure.
In case it matters, I'm using Win 10 v1803.
Question:
I'd like to know how we can draw similar, custom, divs (for a lack of a better word) in our figures. (It's important to stress that this is not a UIFigure!)
What I found so far:
The Learn More link opens the page:
web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/creating_plots/interactively-explore-plotted-data.html'))
yet breakpoints in the entry points of either
webordocroot(or evendoc) aren't hit.
Assuming that this element is a
Childof the figure, I attempted to locate a handle to it:
>> set(gcf,'MenuBar','none'); findall(gcf)
ans =
22×1 graphics array:
Figure (1)
ContextMenu
AnnotationPane
Axes
AxesToolbar
Text
Text
Text
ToolbarStateButton (Brush/Select Data)
ToolbarStateButton (Data Tips)
ToolbarStateButton (Rotate 3-D)
ToolbarStateButton (Pan)
ToolbarStateButton (Zoom In)
ToolbarStateButton (Zoom Out)
ToolbarPushButton (Restore View)
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
however, making these controls invisible using
set(h(2:end), 'Visible', false)didn't make the div disappear.
Saving the figure as
.figor generating code for it, doesn't leave any trace of this div.When
uiinspect-ing the figure, this div doesn't show (or at least, I couldn't find it).I don't know what exactly I did to make it reappear once more, but since it's set to appear on the very first time you boot R2018b, I suspect deleting
prefdir(obviously, after backing it up) and restarting MATLAB could bring it back.- The only thing I didn't try yet, is to attach a java debugger to MATLAB and attempt to trace the caller to
com.mathworks.mlservices.MLHelpServices.setCurrentLocation(frommlservices.jar), which opens the help browser.
matlab flexbox matlab-figure matlab-gui undocumented-behavior
asked Nov 19 '18 at 15:59
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It is likely pure Java.
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:33
To dive into modern figure styling, see the toolbox github.com/StackOverflowMATLABchat/mlapptools and its exemples. Another web-GUI example here (uipanel): undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/customizing-web-gui-uipanel. But it's kind of buggy on my system.
– marsei
Nov 19 '18 at 16:43
5
@marsei: Take a look at the contributors page of the toolbox you linked. :)
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:55
add a comment |
After installing R2018b, the first figure I opened contained an interesting message (shown in blue):
The reason it's interesting is because it contains features like text wrapping, transparency, the fact that the image maintains a constant width even though the text resizes (this reminded me of CSS3 flexbox, hence the tag), etc.
The last part of the animation is in slow motion, to better show how the div's size follows that of the figure.
In case it matters, I'm using Win 10 v1803.
Question:
I'd like to know how we can draw similar, custom, divs (for a lack of a better word) in our figures. (It's important to stress that this is not a UIFigure!)
What I found so far:
The Learn More link opens the page:
web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/creating_plots/interactively-explore-plotted-data.html'))
yet breakpoints in the entry points of either
webordocroot(or evendoc) aren't hit.
Assuming that this element is a
Childof the figure, I attempted to locate a handle to it:
>> set(gcf,'MenuBar','none'); findall(gcf)
ans =
22×1 graphics array:
Figure (1)
ContextMenu
AnnotationPane
Axes
AxesToolbar
Text
Text
Text
ToolbarStateButton (Brush/Select Data)
ToolbarStateButton (Data Tips)
ToolbarStateButton (Rotate 3-D)
ToolbarStateButton (Pan)
ToolbarStateButton (Zoom In)
ToolbarStateButton (Zoom Out)
ToolbarPushButton (Restore View)
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
however, making these controls invisible using
set(h(2:end), 'Visible', false)didn't make the div disappear.
Saving the figure as
.figor generating code for it, doesn't leave any trace of this div.When
uiinspect-ing the figure, this div doesn't show (or at least, I couldn't find it).I don't know what exactly I did to make it reappear once more, but since it's set to appear on the very first time you boot R2018b, I suspect deleting
prefdir(obviously, after backing it up) and restarting MATLAB could bring it back.- The only thing I didn't try yet, is to attach a java debugger to MATLAB and attempt to trace the caller to
com.mathworks.mlservices.MLHelpServices.setCurrentLocation(frommlservices.jar), which opens the help browser.
matlab flexbox matlab-figure matlab-gui undocumented-behavior
asked Nov 19 '18 at 15:59
Dev-iL
16.6k64075
After installing R2018b, the first figure I opened contained an interesting message (shown in blue):
The reason it's interesting is because it contains features like text wrapping, transparency, the fact that the image maintains a constant width even though the text resizes (this reminded me of CSS3 flexbox, hence the tag), etc.
The last part of the animation is in slow motion, to better show how the div's size follows that of the figure.
In case it matters, I'm using Win 10 v1803.
Question:
I'd like to know how we can draw similar, custom, divs (for a lack of a better word) in our figures. (It's important to stress that this is not a UIFigure!)
What I found so far:
The Learn More link opens the page:
web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/creating_plots/interactively-explore-plotted-data.html'))
yet breakpoints in the entry points of either
webordocroot(or evendoc) aren't hit.
Assuming that this element is a
Childof the figure, I attempted to locate a handle to it:
>> set(gcf,'MenuBar','none'); findall(gcf)
ans =
22×1 graphics array:
Figure (1)
ContextMenu
AnnotationPane
Axes
AxesToolbar
Text
Text
Text
ToolbarStateButton (Brush/Select Data)
ToolbarStateButton (Data Tips)
ToolbarStateButton (Rotate 3-D)
ToolbarStateButton (Pan)
ToolbarStateButton (Zoom In)
ToolbarStateButton (Zoom Out)
ToolbarPushButton (Restore View)
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
Button
however, making these controls invisible using
set(h(2:end), 'Visible', false)didn't make the div disappear.
Saving the figure as
.figor generating code for it, doesn't leave any trace of this div.When
uiinspect-ing the figure, this div doesn't show (or at least, I couldn't find it).I don't know what exactly I did to make it reappear once more, but since it's set to appear on the very first time you boot R2018b, I suspect deleting
prefdir(obviously, after backing it up) and restarting MATLAB could bring it back.- The only thing I didn't try yet, is to attach a java debugger to MATLAB and attempt to trace the caller to
com.mathworks.mlservices.MLHelpServices.setCurrentLocation(frommlservices.jar), which opens the help browser.
matlab flexbox matlab-figure matlab-gui undocumented-behavior
matlab flexbox matlab-figure matlab-gui undocumented-behavior
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It is likely pure Java.
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:33
To dive into modern figure styling, see the toolbox github.com/StackOverflowMATLABchat/mlapptools and its exemples. Another web-GUI example here (uipanel): undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/customizing-web-gui-uipanel. But it's kind of buggy on my system.
– marsei
Nov 19 '18 at 16:43
5
@marsei: Take a look at the contributors page of the toolbox you linked. :)
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:55
add a comment |
It is likely pure Java.
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:33
To dive into modern figure styling, see the toolbox github.com/StackOverflowMATLABchat/mlapptools and its exemples. Another web-GUI example here (uipanel): undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/customizing-web-gui-uipanel. But it's kind of buggy on my system.
– marsei
Nov 19 '18 at 16:43
5
@marsei: Take a look at the contributors page of the toolbox you linked. :)
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:55
It is likely pure Java.
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:33
It is likely pure Java.
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:33
To dive into modern figure styling, see the toolbox github.com/StackOverflowMATLABchat/mlapptools and its exemples. Another web-GUI example here (uipanel): undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/customizing-web-gui-uipanel. But it's kind of buggy on my system.
– marsei
Nov 19 '18 at 16:43
To dive into modern figure styling, see the toolbox github.com/StackOverflowMATLABchat/mlapptools and its exemples. Another web-GUI example here (uipanel): undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/customizing-web-gui-uipanel. But it's kind of buggy on my system.
– marsei
Nov 19 '18 at 16:43
5
5
@marsei: Take a look at the contributors page of the toolbox you linked. :)
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:55
@marsei: Take a look at the contributors page of the toolbox you linked. :)
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:55
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After some digging in the Java side of things (starting from findjobj, followed by a lot of .getComponent(0).getComponent(0)...), I've finally managed to locate the component in question. Here's what I learned:
This component is called
InfoPanel, and is part of MATLAB's Java API. The class definition itself is found in:
MATLAB/R2018b/java/jar/hg.jar!/com/mathworks/hg/util/InfoPanel.class
To make it appear, we need to call the
staticmethodaddBannerPanel, passing in a figure handle:
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)) );
Or another signature that also accepts a custom panel:
jIP = com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel;
jIP.setBackground(java.awt.Color(0.8, 0.7, 0.1));
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)), jIP );
The MATLAB setting that controls whether this should appear is
showinteractioninfobarinside the<prefdir>/matlab.settingsXML.It appears that the "interesting parts" of
InfoPanelare private, which means it allows barely any customization (mostly some colors; not the string or the icon), but it should be fairly easy to make a copy of this class and expose all elements we need.
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After some digging in the Java side of things (starting from findjobj, followed by a lot of .getComponent(0).getComponent(0)...), I've finally managed to locate the component in question. Here's what I learned:
This component is called
InfoPanel, and is part of MATLAB's Java API. The class definition itself is found in:
MATLAB/R2018b/java/jar/hg.jar!/com/mathworks/hg/util/InfoPanel.class
To make it appear, we need to call the
staticmethodaddBannerPanel, passing in a figure handle:
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)) );
Or another signature that also accepts a custom panel:
jIP = com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel;
jIP.setBackground(java.awt.Color(0.8, 0.7, 0.1));
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)), jIP );
The MATLAB setting that controls whether this should appear is
showinteractioninfobarinside the<prefdir>/matlab.settingsXML.It appears that the "interesting parts" of
InfoPanelare private, which means it allows barely any customization (mostly some colors; not the string or the icon), but it should be fairly easy to make a copy of this class and expose all elements we need.
answered Nov 19 '18 at 20:30
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After some digging in the Java side of things (starting from findjobj, followed by a lot of .getComponent(0).getComponent(0)...), I've finally managed to locate the component in question. Here's what I learned:
This component is called
InfoPanel, and is part of MATLAB's Java API. The class definition itself is found in:
MATLAB/R2018b/java/jar/hg.jar!/com/mathworks/hg/util/InfoPanel.class
To make it appear, we need to call the
staticmethodaddBannerPanel, passing in a figure handle:
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)) );
Or another signature that also accepts a custom panel:
jIP = com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel;
jIP.setBackground(java.awt.Color(0.8, 0.7, 0.1));
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)), jIP );
The MATLAB setting that controls whether this should appear is
showinteractioninfobarinside the<prefdir>/matlab.settingsXML.It appears that the "interesting parts" of
InfoPanelare private, which means it allows barely any customization (mostly some colors; not the string or the icon), but it should be fairly easy to make a copy of this class and expose all elements we need.
answered Nov 19 '18 at 20:30
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16.6k64075
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After some digging in the Java side of things (starting from findjobj, followed by a lot of .getComponent(0).getComponent(0)...), I've finally managed to locate the component in question. Here's what I learned:
This component is called
InfoPanel, and is part of MATLAB's Java API. The class definition itself is found in:
MATLAB/R2018b/java/jar/hg.jar!/com/mathworks/hg/util/InfoPanel.class
To make it appear, we need to call the
staticmethodaddBannerPanel, passing in a figure handle:
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)) );
Or another signature that also accepts a custom panel:
jIP = com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel;
jIP.setBackground(java.awt.Color(0.8, 0.7, 0.1));
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)), jIP );
The MATLAB setting that controls whether this should appear is
showinteractioninfobarinside the<prefdir>/matlab.settingsXML.It appears that the "interesting parts" of
InfoPanelare private, which means it allows barely any customization (mostly some colors; not the string or the icon), but it should be fairly easy to make a copy of this class and expose all elements we need.
answered Nov 19 '18 at 20:30
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16.6k64075
After some digging in the Java side of things (starting from findjobj, followed by a lot of .getComponent(0).getComponent(0)...), I've finally managed to locate the component in question. Here's what I learned:
This component is called
InfoPanel, and is part of MATLAB's Java API. The class definition itself is found in:
MATLAB/R2018b/java/jar/hg.jar!/com/mathworks/hg/util/InfoPanel.class
To make it appear, we need to call the
staticmethodaddBannerPanel, passing in a figure handle:
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)) );
Or another signature that also accepts a custom panel:
jIP = com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel;
jIP.setBackground(java.awt.Color(0.8, 0.7, 0.1));
com.mathworks.hg.util.InfoPanel.addBannerPanel( figure(randi(1E4)), jIP );
The MATLAB setting that controls whether this should appear is
showinteractioninfobarinside the<prefdir>/matlab.settingsXML.It appears that the "interesting parts" of
InfoPanelare private, which means it allows barely any customization (mostly some colors; not the string or the icon), but it should be fairly easy to make a copy of this class and expose all elements we need.
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It is likely pure Java.
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:33
To dive into modern figure styling, see the toolbox github.com/StackOverflowMATLABchat/mlapptools and its exemples. Another web-GUI example here (uipanel): undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/customizing-web-gui-uipanel. But it's kind of buggy on my system.
– marsei
Nov 19 '18 at 16:43
5
@marsei: Take a look at the contributors page of the toolbox you linked. :)
– Cris Luengo
Nov 19 '18 at 16:55