MATLAB: Change appearance of States and subsystems in Simulink

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Hello all,

Subsystems in simulink and states in stateflow are colored with gradient background:

is there a way to remove it? when I want to create an image for documentation it adds undesired "clutter" to the document.

Regards,

Moshe

Best Answer

Unfortunately, there is no option to achieve such a 'flat' display of states, without the gradient. That indeed is a gap in the formatting options, as the following properties of Stateflow.Chart-objects allow customizing all other colors:

StateColor
StateLabelColor
TransitionColor
TransitionLabelColor
JunctionColor
SelectionColor
ChartColor
ErrorColor

Would you consider filing a feature request in the ticket system?

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