MATLAB: Programmatically select a specific object when switching on plotedit

Question

Is there any way to select an object when issuing the command

plotedit(hfig,'on');

I tried to overwrite 'CurrentObject' property but it did not work. There is also a 'CurrentAxes' property, and that did not work either.

Is there any solution?

Answer 1

OK. Sorry folks, I have found it.

In the defining function:

f=figure;
object=uicontrol(.........,'ButtonDownFcn',{@ButtonDownFcn_Callback,f},'NextPlot','replacechildren',....)
% do it for all objects you define (or you want to select this way)

NextPlot property is necessary only for axes.

and the callback function should do:

function ButtonDownFcn_Callback(hObject,eventdata,hfig)
% hfig=figure; handle to figure containing the objects
% find all axes objects
        hhh=findobj(hfig,'Type','axes');
%unselect all objects
        [NN,~]=size(hhh);
        for i=1:NN
            hhh(i).Selected='off';
        end
% select the currentobject
        hfig.CurrentObject.Selected='on';
        plotedit on;
% the object you clicked on will only be selected.
end

and voila, it works.

Note, that plotedit should be switched off in order to use callback again!