Use of Position property of figures

Hi,

in the Command Window, when I execute the following as a single command

>> f = figure(1);plot(0);disp(f.Position);f.WindowState = 'maximized';disp(f.Position);

the printed outputs is

  403   246   560   420
  403   246   560   420

However, when I execute it as two separate commands,

  
>> f = figure(1);plot(0);disp(f.Position);f.WindowState = 'maximized';

and

>> disp(f.Position);

I get, respectively, the following two outputs:

   403   246   560   420

   1          41        1366         651

The second output is different (as I expected it to be). Why are the outputs different only when running the commands separately?

Thank you,

LT.

Answer 1

[Ankit]

Hi Luca,

using this command you can get the default figure position using get command

for e.g.

>> f = figure(1);plot(0);a = get(f,'defaultfigureposition');

a is in your case is the first output

later using f.WindowState = 'maximized'; you are changing the state from 'normal' to 'maximizied'

And displaying the changed position. This is your second output.

I would recommend you to use following command:

>> get(f)

This will display the all the properties specific to the figure.

I hope this helps.

Thanks

Ankit

[Luca Tarasi]

Thank you, but what was unclear to me is why the position is not updated when I run the whole thing as a single command (I've edited the e question to make it less ambiguous).