Copy figure to clipboard

I have a pushbutton on a gui that calls a seperate function. In this function I create a figure and perform four suplots.

The figure is create via:

hFig = figure('Name','Histograms from gtc Files', 'Resize','on', 'Position',[400 100 1000 800],'numbertitle','off','visible','on');
   movegui(hFig,'center')

After the subplot are plotteds, I want to autosave the whole figure and copy to clipboard. (hardcoded within my function.)

The autosave works after reading how to do it:

hgexport(hFig, savepath, hgexport('factorystyle'), 'Format', 'jpeg');

But I cannot get the copy to clipboard to work. I have tried both

%Copy to clipboard
  print -dmeta -noui

and this approach

    hCopyFigure = findobj(hFig,'Label','Copy &Figure');  %# Handle for the "Copy
                                                         %#   Figure" menu item
    get(hCopyFigure,'Callback')
     editmenufcn(gcbf,'EditCopyFigure')

I can't find anywhere that shows a clear way to do it. Thanks Jason

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

>> print -clipboard -dbitmap

Or

>>  print -clipboard -dmeta

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

MATLAB's clipboard() function can't handle it, but leave it to Yair to find a way:

http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/screencapture-utility

Also see Jiro Doke's File Exchange: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/28708-imclipboard/content/imclipboard.m

[Jason]

I thought there was a way to invoke the edit->copy figure option from the figure's menu?

[Jason]

This works!!!

hgexport(hFig,'-clipboard')

[denny]

Great！