MATLAB: Displaying Graphic Object Handles

Question

Hi all,

I know this might be a simple question, but every time I come across this one, it seems to puzzle me.

Say I have a figure with anything it it. It can be:

plot

plot with a fit => plot(fitfunction,xdata,ydata)

bar graph

contour plot

scatter plot

I think you get the idea.

Now, I want to go and change many of the default formatting options of these objects. To do this I remember by-heart in some cases that for plots I will do h.LineWidth to change the weight of the line, or h.MarkerEdgeColor to change the edge colour of a scatter plot marker.

However, for more complicated cases, I am not aware of what formatting options I have, and therefore what is the name of the handle that I must call. For the following case for example:

 h = plot(fitfunction,xdata,ydata) ; 
 get(h)

All i get is: For a call to GET of the form "get(h)" with no left hand side, h must be scalar. So I do not know what handles I have available to 'play' with.

Consequently, what is a standard approach such that you have all the handle names for each graphic object at hand displayed?

Thanks for your responses in advance,

KMT.

Answer 1

get(h(1))