Exporting/extracting field from figure property editor

The property editor for figures is very useful and I use it a lot.

Often it occurs to me that I would like to add the adjustment of a certain property right into my code, to avoid the need to redo the modification manually, once the figure gets re-generated.

Therefore, I tried to use the "File > Generate Code..." menu entry to export the code of a figure, where I put the label of the x axis lower than what is normally used.

This indeed generates the code, but I can't find the property I edited (position of x axis label) nowhere in the generated code.

Answer 1

[James Clinton]

You can get the Position of the xlabel by using the get function on the figure handle and its properties, as in the following:

h = gcf; % get current figure handle
axObjs = get(h, 'Children'); % gets axes properties
label = get(axObjs, 'Xlabel'); % gets xlabel properties
pos = get(label, 'Position'); % returns the location of the x axis label

Additionally, you can set the property via the following:

h.Children.XLabel.Position = [x y z];

[Nicolas Bourbaki]

Thanks a lot for your quick answer. It helps me a lot, because it shows the underlying system, which can be used to edit also other properties of other objects.