Is there a way to disable automatic resizing of figures to fit within Figure window?

Dear community, I am trying to plot a series of plots (~100 of them) on the same matlab figure so I can quickly scroll through them and see which ones are interesting. My code seems to be working ok for a small number of plots, but when the number of plots gets larger the Matlab figure resizes them so that all of them fit in into the area of the Figure window displayed without needing to scroll up and down, making the subplots very small. In addition, Matlab won't allow me to zoom in to see them (clicking the zoom icon and selecting areas I want to see does not change the view, it seems to be stuck). Is there a way to disable this automatic resizing, so that I have a long figure of reasonably sized plots that I can scroll though and visually inspect?

figure
for plotno = 1:100  
subplot(100,1,plotno);
      plot(x,y)
      xlim([0 4])
      ylim([0 10])
      ax=gca
      ax.PlotBoxAspectRatio = [3 1 1]
end

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No, that is not a possibility.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7073-advanced-scroll-plot-with-subplot-handling

See also https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/22387-imdisp

[Joyce W]

Thanks for the reply. However, I don't understand how to use either of these. It looks like advanced scrollplot may not do what I need it to do anyway -it creates a scroll bar, but only allows me to scroll along the x-axis, not down the list of figures. I am even less able to use imdisp -I am stuck on the part about saving an image in a cell array. How is this done?

[Walter Roberson]

Try this:

create a uipanel "Outer", with cropping turned on. This will act as a "window" on to what is inside. Inside that uipanel, put a second uipanel "Inner" parented to the "Outer" uipanel. Set the "Inner" uipanel to be Units 'pixel' and to be big -- larger than the screen. Only part of the Inner panel will be visible inside of the crop frame that is Outer. Now, somewhere outside of "Outer", add your two scroll bars. The scrollbars are responsible for setting the Position property of Inner, keeping its width and height the same but changing the x and y to be the negative of the position you want to be displayed at the bottom left corner of the virtual panel (e.g., x of -1000 would move the virtual "paper" to the left so that position 1000 would be at the left of the page.)

[Joyce W]

Ok, I think I got imdisp to work decently after I figure out how to import images (basically it's saving all the figures as jpg files and reimporting them into a cell array with importdata). I added to the code above the following, which gives me a figure with all the images where you can scroll with the up and down arrow keys to display blocks of several plots at a time.

    for imgfileno = 1:100
        figure
        plot(x,y)
        xlim([0 4])
        ylim([0 inf])
        ax=gca
        ax.PlotBoxAspectRatio = [3 1 1]
        title(imgfileno)
        basename = sprintf('imgfileno%d', imgfileno)
        print(basename, '-djpeg') 
        imgfilename = sprintf('imgfileno%d.jpg', imgfileno);
        imgfiles{imgfileno} = importdata(imgfilename);
        close
    end

imdisp(imgfiles, 'Size', [3,1])

If there is a better way let me know.