showm

Show objects on axesm-based map

Syntax

showm

showm(obj)

showm(objType)

Description

showm opens a dialog box that enables you to interactively select objects to show. The showm function hides objects by setting their Visible property to "on".

showm(obj) shows the specified objects.

example

showm(objType) shows objects of the specified type.

Examples

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Hide and Show Objects on Map

Open Live Script

Load a MAT file containing the coordinates of global coastlines into the workspace. Create a world map, and then plot the coastline data.

load coastlines
figure
worldmap world
p = plotm(coastlat,coastlon);

Figure contains an axes object. The hidden axes object contains 18 objects of type patch, line, text.

Hide the plotted data.

hidem(p)

Figure contains an axes object. The hidden axes object contains 17 objects of type patch, line, text.

Show the plotted data again.

showm(p)

Figure contains an axes object. The hidden axes object contains 18 objects of type patch, line, text.

Input Arguments

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`obj` — Objects to show
array of graphics objects

Objects to show, specified as an array of graphics objects.

`objType` — Type of graphics object to show
`"all"` | `"clabel"` | `"contour"` | `"fillcontour"` | `"frame"` | ...

Type of graphics object to show, specified as one of these options.

Option	Description
`"all"`	All children
`"clabel"`	Contour labels
`"contour"`	`hggroup` containing contours
`"fillcontour"`	`hggroup` containing filled contours
`"frame"`	Map frame
`"grid"`	Map grid lines
`"hggroup"`	All `hggroup` objects
`"hidden"`	Hidden objects
`"image"`	Untagged image objects
`"light"`	Untagged light objects
`"line"`	Untagged line objects
`"map"`	All objects on the map, excluding the frame and grid
`"meridian"`	Longitude grid lines
`"mlabel"`	Longitude labels
`"parallel"`	Latitude grid lines
`"plabel"`	Latitude labels
`"patch"`	Untagged patch objects
`"scaleruler"`	Scale rulers
`"surface"`	Untagged surface objects
`"text"`	Untagged text objects
`"tissot"`	Tissot indicatrices
`"visible"`	Visible objects

Data Types: char | string

Version History

Introduced before R2006a