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setLabelTextFormatter

Set format used to display text label of Distance tool

setLabelTextFormatter is not recommended. Use one of the ROI classes instead, described in Create ROI Shapes.

Description

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setLabelTextFormatter(h,str) sets the format used to display the label text of the Distance tool, h.

Examples

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Display an image and create a Distance tool.

imshow("pout.tif")
hline = imdistline(gca,[71 171],[108 150]);

Modify the format of the label to indicate that distance is measured in pixels.

setLabelTextFormatter(hline,"%02.0f pixels");

Input Arguments

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Distance tool, specified as an imdistline object.

Text format of Distance tool label, specified as a string scalar or character vector in a format expected by sprintf.

Version History

Introduced before R2006a