What happened to the figure palette plot browser for 2024B?

What happened to the figure palette plot browser for 2024B? In 2023 version and before it, I can type figure then with the figure palette I can add an axes and then add data to the plot for quickly looking at data in a mat file. Is this all gone, how is it replaced?

[Piyush Kumar]

Check the MATLAB R2024b Release Notes

Answer 1

[Piyush Kumar]

@Farley Postgate,

".........type figure then with the figure palette I can add an axes and then add data to the plot for quickly looking at data in a mat file........." - I tried implementing this by following code -

figure;
axes;
data = load('<file-name>.mat');
plot(data.x,data.y);

I tried the above code in both R2024b and R2023a. It gave same output for me.

Are you getting different outputs?

One thing I have found is that use of figurepalette and plotbrowser functions is not recommended in recent versions of MATLAB. Use plotedit and Property Inspector instead.

figure;
data = load('<file-name>.mat'); 
plot(data.x,data.y); 
plotedit on;
inspect(gcf); 

The documentation of plotedit and Property Inspector has some examples. You can go through them to learn more.

[Farley Postgate]

it was just a GUI that was easy to quickly look at data. My scripts are fine. I just hate loosing features like this that were extremely valuable.

[Farley Postgate]

Yeah, so I created a figure with a file pulldown menu with

f = figure('Toolbar','none');
m = uimenu('Text','Options');
mitem = uimenu(m,'Text','Reset');

I then notice that in 2024B, the view menu greys out the figure palette and plot browser. Guess that is just it, no thank you Mathworks. PLEASE REPLACE WITH A GUI FOR QUICK FIGURES.

[Walter Roberson]

@Farley Postgate

R2024b is in pre-release. You should be sending technical feedback to Mathworks about the feature being broken.

[Farley Postgate]

I'll give it a try.. I suppose you are right.