How can I add or remove the menubar or toolbar from a figure in MATLAB?

How can I add or remove the menubar or toolbar from a figure in MATLAB?

I want to control whether the menubar and toolbar appear in a figure. Can I turn them on or off?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

You can use SET command to change the MenuBar and Toolbar properties of the figure to control whether the menubar and toolbar are shown in a MATLAB figure.

The possible values for Menu Bar are:

 'none'  - the menubar is not shown

 'figure' - the menubar is shown

The possible values for ToolBar are:

 'none' - the toolbar is not shown

 'auto' - the toolbar is controlled by the menubar.  If MenuBar is set to 'figure', then the toolbar is shown.  If 'MenuBar is set to 'none', then the toolbar isn't shown.

 'figure' - the toolbar is shown

For example, the following code will open a figure without the menubar and toolbar:

hFigure = figure;

set(hFigure, 'MenuBar', 'none');

set(hFigure, 'ToolBar', 'none');

Answer 2

[KAE]

Even with the instructions, there is still a white bar at the top of the figure, like in screnshot below. (The rest of the figure in the screenshot is black).

How can I get rid of this white bar? What is it called if it's not the Menu Bar or Tool Bar? I don't see any other kinds of "bars" listed in figure properties.

[KAE]

The solution is undecoratefig. It gets rid of everything.

[Steven Lord]

The description of the 'fullscreen' value for the figure property WindowState doesn't give that bar a name; it just says "the minimize, restore, and close buttons provided by the operating system". So maybe we could call it the "system controls bar"?