Unwanted changes/bugs/complaints in R2016b

I have edited my original moan about the zoom cursor to be a more general thread about things that have changed in R2016b that I'm not impressed about as there seem to be a few changes that are not at all in a good direction in my opinion:

1. Has the zoom in cursor for a figure changed in R2016b and is this deliberate? When I click zoom in from the toolbar now in a Matlab figure I just get a cross as my cursor instead of a magnifying glass. Zoom out does give me a magnifying glass with a '-' in it as it should, although it looks more ugly than it used to be! Is this just me or are other people also getting this? I only upgraded this afternoon so have just noticed this now.
2. uisetcolor used to give a very useful dialog from the first one on clicking 'More Colors...'. Now we seem to just have some really simplistic GUI that expects users to type in RGB numbers themselves if they don't want one of the pre-selected colours. Do I really have to resort to java programming to use a more flexible colour picker or is there a way to still get it in R2016b?

[Adam]

We used to get this from uisetcolor:

Now we get this instead

Answer 1

[Jean Marie]

Hi Adam,

You can get the previous version using : setpref('Mathworks_uisetcolor', 'Version', 1)

[Adam]

Thanks, I never knew that was there. As it happens I did create my own colour picker from java components, but this is still useful to know.

[Greg]

This answer has no effect on either of my machines. Is there something else I'm missing?

EDIT: Apparently it requires a MATLAB restart after calling setpref()

[Adam]

Did you restart Matlab? It doesn't take effect until you do it seems.

[Lucie]

Thank you for this answer, which is the only one available to tackle this annoying color picker problem. However, this answer did not work on my computer (which is running Matlab 2017a). I restarted Matlab and even the laptop, didn't work. Any insight?

[Adam]

Yes, this doesn't seem to work for me when I tried it in R2017a. I have a session open that I don't want to close though, I don't know if that affected it, but I opened a new session, changed the setting in there, restarted it and it didn't work.

I use my own created one now, but this was certainly a useful trick to know.

[Lucie]

Thank you, I guess I'll need to figure this out. Cheers!

[Greg]

Check out the comment to the answer to this question.

The setpref workaround doesn't seem to work after R2016b, but I've posted a new way.