Colormap Dropdown Menu

Create a dropdown menu to select a colormap
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Updated 15 Sep 2017

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This is an example of a way to create a dropdown menu to select a colormap in a GUI figure.
The colorbars are displayed in the dropdown menu next to the colormap name using HTML.

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Seth Kenner (2025). Colormap Dropdown Menu (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/43659-colormap-dropdown-menu), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2013a
Compatible with any release
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Acknowledgements

Inspired by: rgbconv.m, MATLAB Plot Gallery - Colormap Chart

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Version Published Release Notes
1.0.0.0

A new version of the rgbconv.m function was updated and to handle certain cases.