listener behavior for axes in uifigure vs. figure

I am trying to overcome a current limitation of UIAxes inside app designer, so I thought I would manually add an Axes to a UIFigure. However, I am getting an unexpected behavior when adding a listener to the XLim property of the axes. When I pan the axes, the listener only fires after the mouse button has been released, not continuously as I would expect. Here is a simple code to reproduce the issue:

hUIFig = uifigure;
hAx = axes(hUIFig, 'OuterPosition', [0,0,1,1]);
addlistener(hAx ,'XLim', 'PostSet', @(~,evnt)disp(evnt.AffectedObject.XLim));

vs the behavior I would expect when the axes is inside a figure

hFig = figure;
hAx = axes(hFig, 'OuterPosition', [0,0,1,1]);
addlistener(hAx ,'XLim', 'PostSet', @(~,evnt)disp(evnt.AffectedObject.XLim));

I am using R2019b.

Is there a way to overcome this limitation?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Jalaj Gambhir]

Hi,

The visible difference is because of the way the interactions are implemented differently for figure and uifigure. The concerned parties might be investigating further.

[Paul Keselman]

Thank you for your reply. Strangely enough if I interact with the ruler, things behaves as expected, so it should not be too hard to fix this bug when interacting with the axes itself.