MATLAB: Global Position of Docked Figures window

docked figures

I am having difficulty accessing the global position of the docked "Figures" window. I have the units of the figures inside of the window set to pixels and when accessing the 'Position' property of one of those windows I get [1 1 L W], which means that it is somehow parented I guess (it is not at the bottom left of my monitors). However, there is no handle that I can find to the docked "Figures" window to access the global position. I am not sure if it makes a difference, but I have UI elements in each of the figures. Here's a really simple sample:
    fig=figure
    set(fig,'WindowStyle','docked')
    get(fig,'Position')
The output no matter where the figures window is globally located is:
ans =
       1     1   some_length   some_width
Any help on this would be appreciated.

Best Answer

Hi,
When you dock some figures, they go in the Figure Editor, which is not a classic matlab figure. This is a java component.
You can access it but it becomes messy (and dangerous) really fast.
you need to use code looking like :
% create a dock figure
fig = figure;
set(fig,'WindowStyle','docked')
get(fig,'Position')
% get the Figure editor    
desktop   = com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance;
container = desktop.getGroupContainer('Figures').getTopLevelAncestor;
% get the dimensions
width  = get(container.getSize,'width');
height = get(container.getSize,'height');
% get the origin
Location = get(container.getAccessibleContext,'Location');
Xorigin  = get(Location,'X');
Yorigin  = get(Location,'Y');
% display
disp([Xorigin Yorigin width height])
if you really need to manipulate this kind of element, take a look at undocumentedmatlab.com of Yair Altman.
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