Setting Datatips in Standalone MATLAB-App

Hi there,

in my Standalone-MATLAB App I plot Data in a figure. In the App-Designer I can set datatips by clicking the Datatip-Button in the top-right corner of the figure. But when I use the compiled Standalone-App the Datatip Symbol is not present anymore. Are there any settings I need to make before compiling my app to get a usable Datatip-Button?

Edit:

With the following function I am able to enable the Datacursormode and the Datatip Symbol is enabled:

datacursormode(app.axes, 'on')

But when I click on another Symbol like the magnifying glas, the datatip symbol disapears.

Thanks

Nico

Answer 1

[Saurabh]

Hi Nico,

I understand that you want to have DataTip button available for your standalone application as well.

To manage the availability of built-in interactions in a chart, utilize the `disableDefaultInteractivity` and `enableDefaultInteractivity` functions. MATLAB may automatically deactivate these interactions in specific scenarios. After plotting on `UIAxes`, consider invoking `enableDefaultInteractivity` to re-enable these interactions.

You can try calling ‘enableDefaultInteractivity’ after you plot something on the UIAxes.

function plotfunction(app,....)
% ... code to plot ....%
enableDefaultInteractivity(app.X); % app.X where X is the name of your UIAxes object
% alternative method to only enable dataTipInteractions.
app.X.Interactions = [dataTipInteraction]; % app.X where X is the name of your UIAxes object
end

For more information, you can visit this link:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2021a/matlab/creating_plots/control-axes-interactions.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2021a/matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.interaction.interactions.datatipinteraction.html

I hope this was helpful.

[Nico]

Thanks for your effort, but sadly this does not help. The datatip-button is still not visible in my standalone-app

[Saurabh]

If possible can you the file you are working on?

[Nico]

No thats not possible