Interactive plots

This page shows some possibilities to create interactive OpenGL plots (qt or fltk toolkit) not using uicontrols.

See also uicontrols where you can create buttons and slider to create plots

Demo 1Edit

Code: imageViewer example

clear all
graphics_toolkit qt
set (0, "defaultlinelinewidth", 2);

h.points = rand (2, 3);         # 3 random points
h.line = [];
h.marker = [];
set (gcf, "userdata", h)

function down_fig (hsrc, evt)

  h = get (hsrc, "userdata");
  if (isempty (h.marker))
    hold on
    h.marker = plot (NA, NA, "o", "markersize", 15, "color", "green");
    hold off
  endif

  set (hsrc, "userdata", h);
  drag_fig (hsrc, evt);
endfunction

function drag_fig (hsrc, evt)

  # evt 1:left button, 2:middle button, 3:right button
  h = get (hsrc, "userdata");

  if (! isempty (h.marker))
    c = get (gca, "currentpoint")([1;3]);
    set (h.marker, "xdata", c(1));
    set (h.marker, "ydata", c(2));

    # find nearest point
    d = h.points - c;
    [~, idx] = min (hypot (d(1, :), d(2, :)));
    h.points(:, idx) = c;

  endif

  # draw / update the line
  tmp = [h.points h.points(:,1)]; # duplicate first point to close triangle
  if (isempty (h.line))
    h.line = plot (tmp(1, :), tmp(2, :), "-o");
    h.text = text (NA, NA, "", "horizontalalignment", "center");
    ## testing
    axis ([0 1 0 1])
  else
    set (h.line, "xdata", tmp(1, :));
    set (h.line, "ydata", tmp(2, :));
  endif

  # calculate the area
  A = polyarea (h.points(1, :),
                h.points(2, :));
  P = mean (h.points, 2);
  set (h.text, "position", mean (h.points, 2).');
  set (h.text, "string", sprintf ("A = %.3f", A));

  set (hsrc, "userdata", h);

endfunction

function up_fig (hsrc, evt)

  h = get (gcbf, "userdata");
  delete (h.marker);
  h.marker = [];
  set (gcbf, "userdata", h);

endfunction

set (gcf, "windowbuttondownfcn", @down_fig);
set (gcf, "windowbuttonmotionfcn", @drag_fig)
set (gcf, "windowbuttonupfcn", @up_fig)

# first update
drag_fig (gcf, [])