figure

Description

This routine creates a figure. If an ID is given, the figure corresponding to this ID is created. Otherwise, the window is created with the first free ID, that is the lowest integer not already used by a window.

Arguments

num

ID of the window to create. If not specified, the first free ID is used.

PropertyName{1, ..., N}

character string name of a property to set. One of the property names listed below.

PropertyValue{1, ..., N}

scilab object value to give to the corresponding property.

f

handle of the newly created window.

Properties

BackgroundColor

[1,3] real vector or string Background color of the figure. A color is specified as Red, Green and Blue values. Those values are real in [0,1]. The color can be given as a real vector, ie [R,G,B] or a string where each value is separated by a "|", ie "R|G|B"

Figure_name

character string, allows to set the title of the figure.

ForegroundColor

[1,3] real vector or string Foreground color of the figure. A color is specified as Red, Green and Blue values. Those values are real in [0,1]. The color can be given as a real vector, ie [R,G,B] or a string where each value is separated by a "|", ie "R|G|B"

Position

allows to control the geometrical aspect of the figure. It is a [1,4] real vector [x y width height] where the letters stand for the x location of the top left corner, the y location of the top left corner, the width and the height of the virtual graphics window (the part of the figure which contains uicontrols and graphics). See the axes_size property description in figure properties help page. One can also set this property by giving a string where the fields are separated by a "|", ie "x|y|width|height".

Tag

string this property is generally used to identify the figure. It allows to give it a "name". Mainly used in conjontion with findobj().

Userdata

this can be used to associate some Scilab objects to a fugure.

Examples

// Create figure having figure_id==3
h=figure(3);
// Add a text uicontrol in figure 3
uicontrol(h, "style", "text", ...
             "string", "This is a figure", ...
             "position", [50 70 100 100], ...
             "fontsize",15);

// Create figure having figure_id==1
figure();
// Add a text uicontrol in figure 1
uicontrol("style", "text", ...
          "string", "Another figure", ...
          "position", [50 70 100 100], ...
          "fontsize", 15);

// Close current figure (ie figure 1)
close();
// close figure 3
close(h);

See Also

• close — close a figure
• gcf — Return handle of current graphic window.

Authors

Bertrand Guiheneuf

V.C.