Disable automatic Data Tips

I've just updated from R2018b to R2019b, and now every time I click on a plot, it prints a new Data Tip without my asking it to. So just clicking on a plot to make the axes current or pan or zoom ends up creating a mess like this:

Is there any way to disable this behavior?

Answer 1

[Mustafa Abu-Mallouh]

There are a few ways to go about this. To do this for individual plots, you can use the disableDefaultInteractivity command as below:

x = 0:0.01:10;
y = sin(x);

figure(1)
plot(x,y)
disableDefaultInteractivity(gca)

If you would like to do it for all of the created plots in a session, use

>> set( groot , 'defaultAxesCreateFcn' , 'disableDefaultInteractivity(gca)' )

However, with that method it will reset everytime you start up MATLAB.

If you would like this to apply whenever you open MATLAB, you'll need to implement it into your startup.m file. Here is an example of how you could implement it (MATLAB version 9.7 is 2019b)

if ~verLessThan('MATLAB','9.7')
    set( groot , 'defaultAxesCreateFcn' , 'disableDefaultInteractivity(gca)' )
end

[Chad Greene]

Nope! That's the first thing I tried, but it apparently has no effect in 2019b.

[Mustafa Abu-Mallouh]

Apologies, I glossed over the 2019b remark. I edited the answer with 3 implementations that should answer your question.

[Chad Greene]

Ah, brilliant! That works perfectly! Thanks Mustafa! I've added your suggested if statement to my startup.m.

Thanks again!

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Thank you very much. Definitely a solution providing great relief.

[Benjamin Kraus]

There is a bug with this solution that will cause some strange and unexpected behaviors.

The issue is the call to gca, which will only work if the axes has HandleVisibility set to 'on' and if the parent figure of the axes also has HandleVisibility set to 'on'. Otherwise, gca will create a new axes instead of operating on the axes you think it should. This is particularly troublesome for App Designer, because the figure has HandleVisibility set to 'off' by default.

The better way to achieve the same goal is to use a function handle and set the DefaultAxesCreateFcn like this:

if ~verLessThan('MATLAB','9.7')
    set(groot, 'defaultAxesCreateFcn', @(ax,~) disableDefaultInteractivity(ax))
end

The difference here is that the axes handle itself is passed directly to disableDefaultInteractivity so it is no longer dependent upon gca working.

[Nils Tilton]

I also cant stand the data tips. I tried this solution, but it didnt change anything. Any advice? Maybe I didn't edit my startup.m properly...

[Chad Greene]

Yeah, none of the proposed solutions are working for me these days either. Just have to keep swatting them away.

[Tong D]

right click and delete all data tips