setLabelTextFormatter

Set format used to display text label of Distance tool

setLabelTextFormatter is not recommended. Use one of the ROI classes instead, described in ROI Creation Overview.

Description

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setLabelTextFormatter(h,str) sets the format used to display the label text of the Distance tool, h.

Examples

Format Label of Distance Tool

Display an image and create a Distance tool.

imshow('pout.tif')
hline = imdistline(gca,[71 171],[108 150]);

Modify the format of the label to indicate that distance is measured in pixels.

setLabelTextFormatter(hline,'%02.0f pixels');

Input Arguments

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Distance tool, specified as an imdistline object.

Text format of Distance tool label, specified as a character array in a format expected by sprintf.

Introduced before R2006a