How to capture the names or indexes in a variable using gname?

Hi,

I am using gscatter to plot my data and eventually I would like to select and identify some points that cluster together and see what is happening to them.

This is what I am using:

    gscatter(x,y,names) ;
    mycluster=gnames(names);

I get printed correctly the names of the data points but the resulting variable mycluster is a vector with a set of float numbers that I don't know how are related to the points I have picked.

So my question is: is there anyway to capture the names in a variable instead of get them printed on the plot?

Answer 1

[dpb]

The floating point numbers are handles to the plot text objects...to find out which is which,

cats = get(mycluster,{'string'});

which will return cell array of the names for each handle.