plottools

(Removed) Show or hide plot tools

plottools has been removed. Use plotedit or the Property Inspector instead.

Syntax

plottools

plottools(state)

plottools(state,tool)

plottools(fig,___)

Description

plottools shows the plot tools on the current figure. If no current figure exists, plottools creates one.

plottools(state) changes the state of the plot tools on the figure. For example, plottools("on") shows the plot tools.

plottools(state,tool) operates on the specified tool only.

plottools(fig,___) operates on the specified figure instead of the current figure. The input fig can precede any of the input argument combinations in the previous syntaxes.

Examples

Open Plot Tools

Show the plot tools by calling the plottools function. The tools open in the same configuration as last time you invoked the tools.

plot(1:10);
plottools

Input Arguments

state — Plot tools state

"on" | "off" | "toggle"

Plot tools state, specified as one of these values:

• "on" — Show plot tools.

• "off" — Hide plot tools.

• "toggle" — Switch the plot tools state between the "on" and "off" states.

tool — Plot tool

"figurepalette" | "plotbrowser" | "propertyeditor"

Plot tool, specified as one of these values:

• "figurepalette" — Operate on the Figure Palette.

• "plotbrowser" — Operate on the Plot Browser.

• "propertyeditor" — Operate on the Property Editor.

fig — Target figure

Figure object

Target figure, specified as a Figure object. Use fig to show or hide plot tools on a specific figure instead of the current figure.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a

R2025a: Removed

The plottools function has been removed.

• For syntaxes opening the Figure Palette, use the plotedit function instead.

• For syntaxes opening the Property Editor, use inspect to launch the Property Inspector instead.

• For syntaxes opening the Plot Browser, use inspect to launch the Property Inspector instead and expand the first line in the Property Inspector to view the object hierarchy.