How to draw an arrow or triangle

Hello Matlab community, I am trying to draw an arrow. I am using Psychtoolbox and there doesn't seem to be a specific command for arrows or triangles. I know how to draw a line:

 line = [X-3,Y-40,X+3,Y+40];
 Screen('FillRect',window,[200,200,200], line');

So if someone knows the code to draw a triangle I can merge it with the code for a line to draw an arrow. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Brett

Answer 1

[Sanjay Manohar]

This is not a MATLAB question. But for completeness, the answer should be

    % create a triangle
    head   = [ 100, 100 ]; % coordinates of head
    width  = 10;           % width of arrow head
    points = [ head-[width,0]         % left corner
               head+[width,0]         % right corner
               head+[0,width] ];      % vertex
    Screen('FillPoly', window,[200,200,200], points);

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

Are you aware of the annotation() function?

annotation('line',x,y)
annotation('arrow',x,y)
annotation('doublearrow',x,y)
annotation('textarrow',x,y)
annotation('textbox',[x y w h])
annotation('ellipse',[x y w h])
annotation('rectangle',[x y w h])
annotation(figure_handle,...)

[Walter Roberson]

This does not appear to be applicable to the drawing facilities supported by psychtoolbox.

[Brett]

Yes, as Walter said, this did not work.

[sina farahi]

annotation('arrow',x,y) doesn't work

[Image Analyst]

At all? Or just with some figure created by the Psychtoolbox (which is not a Mathworks product and I don't have)? Does this draw an arrow for you:

plot(1:10, 'LineWidth', 2);
grid on;
annotation('arrow', [.21, .5], [.85, .5], 'LineWidth', 2);

Answer 3

[sina farahi]

usage: Arrow(dot,vector); note: This function draw an arrow (head lines have pi/6 angle and the length of l/5) example: Arrow([10;11;12],[0.2;20;25]);