figure menu when resizing

When I resize a figure and make it smaller the menu is compressed and is not readable. This behavior is different in an older Matlab version (2006) when the menu is displayed on 2 rows when the figure size is too small. How can I get the old behavior in the new(er) Matlab?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Yair Altman]

This is covered in section 5.2.1 of my Matlab-Java book:

jFrame = get(handle(gcf), 'JavaFrame')
try
  jMenuBar = jFrame.fHG1Client.getMenuBar;
catch
  jMenuBar = jFrame.fFigureClient.getMenuBar;  % R2007b and earlier
end
jMenuBar.setMoreMenuEnabled(true);

Yair Altman

http://UndocumentedMatlab.com

Answer 2

[DF]

I come back to this question with more details, maybe someone has an idea. When I execute the code below in Matlab2011 I get all menus on the same line in the menu bar and the menu label is not entirely visible. However, in Matlab2003 starting from 'Function6' a new line is created in the menu bar. How can I split the menus over 2 lines in the menu bar in Matlab2011?

figure
f = uimenu('Label','Function1');
f = uimenu('Label','Function2');
f = uimenu('Label','Function3');
f = uimenu('Label','Function4');
f = uimenu('Label','Function5');
f = uimenu('Label','Function6');
f = uimenu('Label','Function7');

[Jan]

A question for Yair.

Answer 3

[DC]

Thanks for your reply! Although a reasonable solution to my problem, this is only a workaround, in the sense that it does not put the menu bar on 2 lines, but adds an extension to the menu bar which only becomes visible when clicking the arrow. Is there no way to create a menu bar on more lines?

Answer 4

[Jan]

Perhaps this helps: FEX: menubar