whitebg limitations on color

I accidently changed my figure option of MATLAB R2016a. whitebg made my figure background turn into gray

To make it default, i commanded 'whitebg('w')', but it does not change into complete white,In another way,

white must be [1 1 1] in color map, and i commanded 'whitebg([1 1 1])', and checked it through 'gcf' command, it showed that color is [0.855387679992951 0.855387679992951 0.855387679992951].

Why does it have limitation? why cannot have complete white?

Answer 1

[Jordan Ross]

Hello Hong,

The function 'whitebg' will change the background color of the axes, not the figure. See the documentation for 'whitebg': http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2016a/matlab/ref/whitebg.html?searchHighlight=whitebg. Note that whitebg will be removed in the future.

To change the background color for the figure (i.e. the window) you can use the following command:

set(gcf,'color','white')

which will set the background color of the current figure to white. Here is a related MATLAB Answers post about changing the default background color: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/96816-how-do-i-change-the-default-background-color-of-all-figure-objects-created-in-matlab