select line by touching with mouse
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this is a equity plotted
Is it possible to select one by touching it with the mouse?
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John D'Errico
on 4 Jun 2025
Edited: John D'Errico
on 4 Jun 2025
"select curve?"
Well, yes, in a sense. When you plot the curve, you can supply a ButtonDownFcn, so that when you click on the curve, will initiate whatever code you write. In a very simple form, I did this:
mycallback = @(varargin) disp("yeah? what do ya want?");
plot(1:5,rand(1,5),buttondownfcn = mycallback)
Now, when I click on the curve, I see this grumpy response:
yeah? what do ya want?
But if I click on an empty part of the figure, I see nothing. The callback is only initiated when I click right on the curve.
You can be far more creative than what I did of course.
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