i have a code which is used to analyse some raw data data and compare the results of many(unknown number) of tests. for this my code first starts like this
prompt='how many files do you wish to analyse? ';
prompt1='what is the name of the test? ';
prompt2='what is the name of the file? ';
n=input(prompt);
for i=1:n
name(i,:)=input(prompt1,'s');
filename(i,:)=input(prompt2);
end
for i=1:n
a(:,:,i)=ftp_75_2(filename(i,:));
for j=1:18
figure(j)
legend(name(i,:));
end
end
the trouble is every time a new legend gets added the old one gets removed. can someone help me. I have seen some solutions online but they all require the person who runs the code to create a specific label command or to know the number of files which will be in the legend rather than take an input from the user.
I am creating this code to give prompts since the people who are to use this will have little to no matlab knowledge
You can assign a DisplayName during creation in your function that performs the plots, like so:
plot(3:-1:1,1:3, 'DisplayName', 'My title')
You can do this for your various tests, and then, at the end, you can call
legend(findobj(j, '-property', 'DisplayName'))
(where j is your figure handle) to display the legend.
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I have created a loop in MATLAB to automate some FFT work. The loop selects a new .mat files each time through. I have extracted a cell array which references the test data being processed (for example Test 1), and I would like to use that information in the title of the figures I produce.
I have tried
title(fileInfo);
Here, fileInfo contains Test 1.
What do I need to do to be able to get this information into the figure on each iteration of the loop?
I am not sure, how you are calling your matfiles, but this is the good method to achieve the task:
matfiles = dir('*.mat') ;
for i = 1:length(matfiles)
%% do waht you want
figure
title(matfiles(i).name)
end
Straight away to your question. You can get title like below:
fileInfo = 'Test 1';
figure
%% plot
title(fileInfo)
Or straight away:
figure
% plot
title('Test 1')
Background
Matlab has a publish function which outputs a, say, .html file based on the syntax of the comments. Sections which contain example code are indicated by a '%' followed by three spaces. An example function can be seen below, and the .html file generated by the publish function can be seen here.
function randomImage = GenerateRandomImage(n)
%% TestFunction
% generates a random image
%
% randomImage = GenerateRandomImage(n) returns an nxn array of random pixels
%
%% Example
% randomImage = GenerateRandomImage(10);
% figure; imagesc(abs(randomImage));
randomImage = rand(n);
end
Matlab will not automatically evaluate the example code, unless I create a separate script with the example code explicitly uncommitted. An example script is seen below. This time, it automatically includes the outputs of that script, such as the image produced by the example script shown here here.
%% TestFunction
% generates a random image
%
% randomImage = GenerateRandomImage(n) returns an nxn array of random pixels
%
%% Example
randomImage = GenerateRandomImage(10);
figure; imagesc(abs(randomImage));
The Question
Is it possible for the publish function to automatically evaluate the code snippits in the comments of a function and include those outputs in the html file?
The matlab publisher is explicitly meant to be performed on scripts, not function files, since its purpose is to produce a report, where individual sections (marked with %%) become headings, and lines beginning with % immediately under the %% become the description text for that section. Anything that follows after that, both code and comment lines, will be presented by the publisher in a nice little box as the code that was run for that section, and then the results of that code will be shown below that box, but contained within their section.
Putting code in the description text for that section, expecting it to be run is counter-intuitive. In fact, the only reason you might want to put a code snippet in the description is if you wanted to mention some code without running it.
For this reason the publisher provides special syntax (indent by 2 spaces for monotyped text, 3 spaces to add syntax-highlighting to your code).
Publisher is a nice tool, but unfortunately it's fairly limited. The main limitation for me is that you cannot choose which code sections to show results for and which ones not to; it's all or nothing. Therefore I usually resort to a "latex + saved matlab figures + makefile" approach instead for flexible reports. But publisher is nice if you want something quick and dirty; e.g. it's good for keeping a logbook / diary of your work.
Anyway, to answer your question, no, you can't put code in the description and expect it to run. Nor are you expected to 'publish' functions; the fact that a function file responds at all to publishing in the first place is probably more of a side-effect of how publisher gets called more than anything.
Problem: I use MATLAB for science, and I often need more than 4 significant digits. Every time I use Data Cursor in a figure's GUI, I need to manually right-click on the point, Select Text Update Function... or Edit Text Update Function..., and navigate to the folder where I saved the function whose callback prints more than 4 (e.g. 8) significant figures. This is annoying and there should be a way to automatically change this.
Ideal answer: I want this done permanently for all figures, e.g. in a function that changes default settings in my startup.m file.
Good enough answer: I want a wrapped function to which I give the figure handle and it fixes this for me.
I humbly await SO's infinite wisdom.
The permanent solution
would be, to edit the default_getDatatipText.m function.
You can find it in:
C:\...\MATLAB\R20xxx\toolbox\matlab\graphics\#graphics\#datacursor
There you will find the line:
DEFAULT_DIGITS = 4; % Display 4 digits of x,y position
Edit it as desired, you can't do much harm, but make a backup before if you want.
Alternative solution:
There is also the possibility of custom data tips: Tutorial at Matlab Central
It could finally look like this:
(additional text outside data-tips was post-processed)
And as you're talking about precision. The data-tip always snaps to the closest data-point. It doesn't show interpolated data at the clicked position.
The permanent answer given by thewaywewalk doesn't work anymore in R2015a, and probably later ones. So here I share my solution for both the temporary and permanent solution
Temporary solution (for a single figure):
The following function contains the update function as a nested function. Call datacursorextra to apply it to the current figure, or datacursorextra(fig) to apply it to some figure fig.
function datacursorextra(fig)
% Use current figure as default
if nargin<1
fig = gcf;
end
% Get the figure's datacursormode, and set the update function
h = datacursormode(fig);
set(h,'UpdateFcn',#myupdatefcn)
% The actual update function
function txt = myupdatefcn(~,event)
% Short-hand to write X, Y and if available Z, with 10 digit precision:
lbl = 'XYZ';
txt = arrayfun(#(s,g)sprintf('%s: %.10g',s,g), lbl(1:length(event.Position)), event.Position,'uniformoutput',false);
% If a DataIndex is available, show that also:
info = getCursorInfo(h);
if isfield(info,'DataIndex')
txt{end+1} = sprintf('Index: %d', info.DataIndex);
end
end
end
Permanent solution (apply to all figures by default):
I have not found a way to set a default UpdateFcn for the data cursor, but it is possible to add some code which will be called every time a new figure is created. Add the following line to your startup.m:
set(0,'defaultFigureCreateFcn',#(s,e)datacursorextra(s))
and make sure the datacursorextra function given above is available in your Matlab path.
#caspar's solution works very well.
You can also update the txt{} part of the solution with
if isfield(info,'DataIndex')
DataIndex = [info.DataIndex];
txt{end+1} = sprintf('Index: %d\n', DataIndex(1));
end
This will enable you to update the Index field when you have multiple pointers in the same figure.
I have a .m file (script) that is controlling a real-time robot.
What i do within this file is:
1- find a trajectory
2-infinite loop:
read from robot
update robot
plot some stuff (basically I'm drawing a new point in each iteration that represents the position of the robot in a previously opened map, it's updating the map)
end of loop
What I want to do is to create a GUI that allows me to make the plots and see some values that the robot returns at the same time, in real time.
From what I read, MATLAB can't run both a script and a GUI at the same time.. I can make it plot in real time in the GUI but I can't seem to be able to update the values returned by the robot in text boxes in GUI..
Do I have to put it all in the same file or is there a way for the GUI and the script to work in separate files?
Thank you in advance!
MATLAB has not trouble running both. I don't know where you read that but it's not true; MATLAB is not the best tool to solve this problem, but it can do it.
First, I'm going to frame your problem in code, to make it easier to solve. Your question is vague and general, so my response has to be be general as well. I'm making some assumption about your function structure, but it really should look a lot like this:
endflag = 0;
while ~endflag
robotData = getRobotData(robotHandel);
derivedData = doStuffWithData(robotData);
updateRobot(derivedData);
showData(robotData, derivedData)
endflag = checkEndFlag(robotData, derivedData)
end
So, your problem is the showData functionality. What it should do, is determine which values need to be displayed from it's inputs, and pass those to your GUI. Like so:
function showData(robotData, derivedData)
guiInputData = dataParser(robotData, derivedData)
YourGUIFunctionName(guiInputData)
end
The GUI function should then build itself using those inputs. Any GUI function working that way, will do what you want it to. If you want a more specific solution, you need to give me more specific information about your problem. Good luck, I hope this helps.
I'm writing MATLAB code in order to publish it later. By publishing, I mean the built-in MATLAB publish tool that allows the programmer to make a full report generated from their MATLAB code. There's an option to include the code with this report, section by section, preceding the results of this code. Is there a way to tell MATLAB to include some of this code in the report but not all of it? I know there are quite a few markup code tags, but I wasn't able to find anything on this topic.
Edit: Just to clarify, I want all results to be published, but only some of the code. So simply removing this code is not an option.
Cheers! = )
Hide your code that you don't want people to see in a script. For example, in the "sine_wave" example from the publish documentation page, I added a single line:
junk
Here's the content of junk:
figure()
plot(0:0.01:6,sin(0:0.01:6))
Now run your main script, and the published result has "junk" in the listing, but the contents of junk are not included, and you get the nice version of a sine wave, instead of the crappy one included in their example.
The only way I know of to do this is to remove the code that you don't want to appear in the output. If you just want to display the code and not the output, then you can just set the evalCode property to false in your call to publish.
If you do want the code to be evaluated, and the output to be published as well, then it's just slightly more complicated. You can manually execute the parts of the script that you don't want to publish, then publish the code that you care about (by putting it in it's own .m file). It shouldn't matter if the published code depends on any variables that are initialized in the omitted code, since those variables were added to your workspace when you manually executed the omitted code fragments.
Edit:
Since you've clarified your question to state that you're interested in publishing some of the code, but all of the output, I would think that your best bet is to just modify the "temporary" script (which contains the partial set of code that you wish to publish) to include any fprintf, disp, etc. function calls that you want to have appear in the output.
It's a bit hack-ish, but like I said, I'm not aware of any way to get that kind of fine granularity with "annotations" or using the publish command.
Hope that helps!
Here's a sample script that you can save and publish which will illustrate one workaround. You first have to set the Include code option to false, which stops all evaluated code from appearing, but you can still display code using a syntax highlighted code sample:
%% Controlling what code gets published
% Here's how you can do it...
%% Showing results without code
% If you set the
% <https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/specifying-output-preferences-for-publishing.html#bthbe__-3
% *Include code* option> to |false|, you will see the plot but not the code
% that made it:
surf(peaks); % I'm John Cena!
%% But what if you want some of the code to show?
% The *Include code* setting affects the whole document, so all evaluated
% code will be hidden. If you want some code to show, you can use
% <https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/marking-up-matlab-comments-for-publishing.html#bs_uwzr
% syntax highlighted sample code>. This does mean you have to have duplicate
% sections of code (one is evaluated, one is displayed), but it's the best
% option thus far:
%%
%
% surf(peaks);
%
surf(peaks); % You can't see me, but you see the above!
And here's the published output:
I change the Matlab expression in the publishing options to
myFunction('PUBLISHING');
And the first lines of the function code to check for that input, so I can modify my code to only do certain things when publishing, usually displaying figures etc., but not during normal operation. Or vice versa :)
function [outputs] = myFunction(input1, input2)
isPublishing = (nargin == 1) && strcmp(input1, 'PUBLISHING');
if (nargin == 0) || isPublishing
% Set up default values
input1 = 'Hello';
input2 = 'World';
end
...
end