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setColor

(Not recommended) Set color used to draw ROI object

setColor is not recommended. With the new ROIs, set the value of the Color property instead. For more information, see Compatibility Considerations.

Description

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setColor(h,color) sets the color used to draw the ROI object h.

Examples

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Display an image. Draw a polygon on the image, specifying the location of five vertices.

imshow('gantrycrane.png')
h = impoly(gca,[188,30; 189,142; 93,141; 13,41; 14,29]);

Set the color of the polygon to yellow.

setColor(h,'yellow');

Input Arguments

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ROI object, specified as an imellipse, imfreehand, imline, impoint, impoly, or imrect object.

ROI color, specified as the comma-separated pair consisting of 'Color' and an RGB triplet, a color name, or a short color name.

You can specify any color using an RGB triplet. An RGB triplet is a 3-element row vector whose elements specify the intensities of the red, green, and blue components of the color. The intensities must be in the range [0, 1].

You can specify some common colors by name as a string scalar or character vector. This table lists the named color options and the equivalent RGB triplets.

Color NameShort NameRGB TripletAppearance
"red""r"[1 0 0]

A rectangle colored pure red

"green""g"[0 1 0]

A rectangle colored pure green

"blue""b"[0 0 1]

A rectangle colored pure blue

"cyan" "c"[0 1 1]

A rectangle colored pure cyan

"magenta""m"[1 0 1]

A rectangle colored pure magenta

"yellow""y"[1 1 0]

A rectangle colored pure yellow

"black""k"[0 0 0]

A rectangle colored black

"white""w"[1 1 1]

A rectangle colored white

Here are the RGB triplets for the default colors that MATLAB® uses in many types of plots.

RGB TripletAppearance
[0 0.4470 0.7410]

A rectangle colored medium blue

[0.8500 0.3250 0.0980]

A rectangle colored reddish-orange

[0.9290 0.6940 0.1250]

A rectangle colored dark yellow

[0.4940 0.1840 0.5560]

A rectangle colored dark purple

[0.4660 0.6740 0.1880]

A rectangle colored light green

[0.3010 0.7450 0.9330]

A rectangle colored light blue

[0.6350 0.0780 0.1840]

A rectangle colored dark red

Example: 'Color','r'

Example: 'Color','green'

Example: 'Color',[0 0.4470 0.7410]

Version History

Introduced in R2008a

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