How to "lock" UIAxes in AppDesigner?

Hi,

i want to display an image in UIAxes in AppDesigner with the following code:

A = imread('icon.png');
imshow(A,'Parent',app.UIAxes);

which works fine. How can i prevent the image from being shiftable and zoomable inside the UIAxes, when trying to move the image with the mouse? It's meant to be a static logo in my GUI. I already tried:

zoom(app.UIAxes,'off');

but it doesn't change anything. I'm using Matlab 2018b.

Thanks for your help

Edit: as a workaround i put an empty Labelfield on top of the UIAxes, but this isnt a satisfying solution

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

You can disable the default interactions for the axes.

disableDefaultInteractivity(app.UIAxes)

If you want them back, they can be reenabled with

enableDefaultInteractivity(app.UIAxes)

[Evan]

I see this function was introduced in 2018b, is there any other alternative for earlier Matlab versions?

I need to do the same thing except for axes rather than UIAxes.

[Jan]

@Evan: This is a new question, because it concerns axes instead of uiaxes. A new thread would be better. But for all, who search the answer here:

AxesH = axes();
image(rand(10, 10, 3));
drawnow;
Axes.HitTest = 'off';

Does this help?

[Németh Gergely]

Hi Guys,

It is nice that this answer was accepted, but for me it does not work at all in appdesigner.

I use disableDefaultInteractivity(app.UIAxes) in my startup function, but it does not do anything. I tried it with button callbacks and it did not work.

Do you know something that can help?

[Cris LaPierre]

Are you wanting to do the same thing as the original poster? Namely, add an image to a UIAxes and then prevent users from shifting or zooming it? I ask because you said you tried this with a button callback.

What did you call your axes? Look in the Component Browser. If your axes is not named app.UIAxes, then you'd need to update the code with the name you gave your axes.