How To: create bare-bone tiny window attached to figure, no GUI

Hello,

without using a GUI, I would like to be able to attach to an existing figure window,

a tiny 'bare-bone' window, for displaying some text info (attached to the figure, not its axes)

The window should not move if the X-limits or the Y limits of the displayed data are changed.

I would like the window to be 'bare-bone', i.e. appearance strictly limited to a line contour

defining an interior. The interior should be able to hold some text (defined programmatically).

The size of the window should be defined programmatically, along with its initial position.

I am looking forward to get an aspect akin to a 'datatip' info window, except it is not pointing to data.

And last, this tiny window should be user-repositionable in X-Y (with no change in size),

anywhere on the figure.

any idea of how to achieve that ?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try creating a scroll panel. See attached zoom demo.

[francois heslot]

Well,

for the help request :

"bare-bone tiny window attached to figure, no GUI"

the "scroll panel" appears to be a akin to using sledge hammer to squash a fly.

UI is involved, sliders are added to the window, etc, etc...

No "bare-bone and without UI" solution for such a simple task ??

(I bluntly tried deleting those sliders, and "scroll panel" is not happy with that...:

Error using matlab.ui.control.UIControl/set Invalid or deleted object.

Error in imscrollpanel/updateViewport (line 1126) set(hSliderVer, 'units', 'pixels');

Error in imscrollpanel/resizeView (line 1083) updateViewport() % Need to do this to get positions correctly

Error while evaluating Panel SizeChangedFcn.)

[Rik]

Your requirements seem to be conflicting. You don't want a GUI, but you want a second figure?

It sounds to me like you did not remove all callbacks related to the scrollpanel.

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