App designer: how to get mouse position when I click on figure?

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Maxime Hervo 2018-6-19

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编辑： Walter Roberson 2021-6-8

Good afternoon,

I am converting Programmatic GUI to app designer. I want to get the mouse position when a user click on a figure.

Unfortunately the CurrentPoint property is not available on the UIaxes. is there a work around?

(Since 2017a we can use the buttonBown property but I do not see the point if we do not know where the user clicked buttonDown )

Thanks a lot, Maxime

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Derek Burrage 2019-9-4

I am new to appdesigner, but have the same problem (in MATLAB 2018a): I want to extract the mouse click coords and display them in a text box (say) in the GUI. However, I found the code hard to understand and implement (lot's of errors, no results!)

I am not sure if this should be a comment or posted as a separate question, but I put it here because it is closely tied to the suggested code above.

Taking the suggested code line by line.

1) ax-uiaxes => Why not app.UIAxes?

2) s=scatter 3... I understand this is a standard MATLAB plot function, which, presumably works inside an app., and its handle is s.

3) What does this syntax mean? My interpretation (possibly in error) is the following:

@ signifies the handle to an anonymous inline function, but what is argument 'e', Is it another handle? Is it assigned to the display function?

I would expect disp( ) to return the button press coords (in the MATLAB workspace?), but somehow it should be available inside the app

What class or function does the property IntersectionPoint belong to?

Finally, on the left side: Is s.ButtonDownFcn a handle, or a property of s and how can I use it to put the results (button press coords) in a text box using, e.g. the following code in a relevant call back: app.TextArea.Value=s.ButtonDownFcn(1,1:2); %'5'; or some variation (none of which seem to work!).

Eric Sargent 2020-12-9

As of R2020b you can use the ginput function to get the coordinates of a selected point in an axes.

(Full answer below)

Paul Ben Ishai 2021-1-4

You sir, are a genius! It works like a treat!

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Answer 1

Siwan Yang 2018-6-22

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Hello Maxime,

There is a similar question on MATLAB Answer: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/265820-saving-mouse-click-coordinates-on-image-in-gui

You could use the ‘ImageClickCallback’ function mentioned in the article to get the mouse click coordinate. You could also use ‘ginput’ function to adjust the number of coordinates you want to get.

Thanks,

Siwan

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Charles Pruszynski 2019-12-24

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编辑：Walter Roberson 2021-6-8

在 MATLAB Online 中打开

The ROI selection functions of the Image Processing Toolbox can do this in App Designer:

            roiPOC = drawpoint(app.UIAxes);    %Use Mouse To Select a point ROI
            PosPOC=round(get(roiPOC,'Position'));    %Extract Coordinates of the point ROI
            delete(roiPOC);    %Delete the point ROI Marker
            drawnow;              % Force figure update

CJP

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Andrew Diamond 2020-5-2

I used this to good effect. Thanks

I'm sure you already know this, but you have roiPOA vs roiPOC typos

For posterity: odd notes for drawpoint on uiaxes vs axes

1) The cursor doesn't change to a cross hair (or the like)

2) If you don't delete the point obect (i.e. the deletion of the returned point object), as shown, and then you right click for the context menu, it throws an error. So its deletion is a practical necessity.

Charles Pruszynski 2020-5-2

Thanks. Fixed the typos.

CJP

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Eric Sargent 2020-12-9

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As of R2020b you can use the ginput function to get the coordinates of a selected point in an axes.

It requires a specific setup as noted in the documentation (see link below):

The ginput and gtext functions do not have an argument for specifying the target figure. As a result, you must set the HandleVisibility property of the App Designer figure to 'callback' or 'on' before calling these functions. After you call these functions, you can set the HandleVisibility property back to 'off'. For example, this code shows how to define a callback that allows you to identify the coordinates of two points using the ginput function.

function pushButtonCallback(app,event) 
    app.UIFigure.HandleVisibility = 'callback';
    ginput(2)
    app.UIFigure.HandleVisibility = 'off';
end

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_guis/graphics-support-in-app-designer.html?searchHighlight=ginput&s_tid=srchtitle

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