Data tips for multiple curves by mouse or arrow keys
FEATURES:
• Fully customizable data tips.
• No arguments to pass over. Retrieves all values out of the plot.
• Reaction on mouse click, mouse move or mouse move with button down.
• Works also with arrow keys.
• Activate right mouse button to show interpolated values.
• Displays the data point closest to the mouse pointer.
• Sticks on a curve by a certain distance to the mouse pointer.*)
• Replicates the color of the curve as box color of data tip.
• Works also in GUIs.
RESTRICTIONS:
• 2D plot
• One x-axis, not reversed, linear or log.
• One or two y-axes, not reversed, linear or log.
• Axes limits not set to -inf or inf, in log scale limits set to > 0
• At least one data point inside the plot
• For interpolated values at least 2 data points inside the plot.
No interpolation for vertical lines.
METHOD:
• Get the mouse pointer location
• Retrieve all data out of the plot
• Translation of all data points to centimeters
• Translation of mouse pointer location to cm
• Set origin at mouse pointer location
• Find foots of perpendiculars from mouse position to all data lines
• Determine closest point (line with shortest distance foot to mouse)
• Display data tip
MANUAL:
Copy the principal of the examples for regular figure or GUI.
Note: Data tip title is stored in the plot UserData.
SHORT EXAMPLE:
hFig = figure;
plot(1:.1:2,2:.1:3,'UserData','My data tip title');
%Track by mouse click:
set(hFig,'windowbuttondownfcn',@DataTip);
%Track by mouse move:
% set(hFig,'windowbuttonmotionfcn',@DataTip);
Cite As
Peter Seibold (2020). Data tips for multiple curves by mouse click or mouse move , MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved December, 2020.
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| Version | Published | Release Notes | |
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| 2.0.1 | Added some restrictions in respect to axes limits |
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| 2.0.0 | Added data tip by arrow keys.
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| 1.1.1 | upload of image failed, repeated again |
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| 1.1.0 | Customizable data tips
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| 1.0.1 | Removed error when negative data are present with log scale |
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| 1.0.0 |
