myfigure - extension of MATLAB's figure

Creates figure window with extra options, non-overlapping placement of multiple figures, and profile management.

myfigure

Creates figure window with extra options, non-overlapping placement of multiple figures, and profile management.

Overview

The function myfigure is an extention built on top of MATLAB's figure function, which allows:

• figure creation on the user-specified monitor (in multi-monitor systems)
• automatic placement of new figure next to the existing one to avoid their overlapping;
• optionally, if there are many figures, new figures can be placed on multiple monitors;
• automatic setting of the figure size same as the previous figure, or manual size setting;
• specifying distance between figures ("gaps") and distance to the screen borders ("margins");
• creating axes: single or tiled layout (uses MATLAB's tiledlayout);
• setting axes properties;
• executing user-defined functions after creating the figure or axes on it;
• disabling the figure's menu bar and tool bar;
• setting standard figure properties;
• saving all above to a profile, and create new figures with desired behaviour by just specifying the profile name;
• selection of existing figure by a text label.

Documentation and examples

For the full function documentation, see attached Live Script and demo files.

After defining figure profiles once (see demo2_generate_banner_case.m), one can just use them as

myfigure(size=[800 400]);
myfigure(profile="demo_profile_with_axes");
myfigure(profile="demo_profile_3D_plots_1x2");
myfigure(profile="demo_profile_with_axes_2x3");

This will create the following non-overlapping figures on the screen: