How can I do to enable zoom only for a specific axes?

In my figure I have two axis showing two plots, and another axes, filled by an image,that I use such a 'button'.

The 'button' do something when the mouse pointer is over it and I click.

My problem is that when I set the zoom option for the first (or the second) axes, it works also for the 'button', that is, when i click on the button image, the image zooms.

I've also noticed that when I choose the zoom-in option in the axes toolbar of the first axes, also for the second axes the zoom-in option is selected.

I want to apply the zoom, pan, or rotate options ONLY for the axes I choose; in the attached code I've tried to use the disableDefaultInteractivity function, but without success. Could anyone suggest me how to do?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

Call zoom with an output. Call setAllowAxesZoom on that object. See the "Object Functions" section on the documentation page for zoom for more information.

[Giuela]

But I when I click on the zoom icon of the axes toolbar I don't call explicitly the 'zoom' function, how can I do what you suggest me? Can you show it in my example, please?

Thanks

[Giuela]

I thought that was enough to enabe the axes toolbar for the axes I don't want to zoom or pan it, but it's not true, so I guess the axis toolbars don't operate only for the axes' owner, but they work for ALL the figure's axes.

Answer 2

[Marcel Goldschen-Ohm]

The above answer does not work for me in R2022a. Attempting to call setAllowAxesZoom produces the error message "Unrecognized function or variable 'setAllowAxesZoom'." despite the fact that this function is still in the docs. Instead, I solved this by using the zoom handle's ButtonDownFilter. This seems like a better solution anyway as it gives the option of disabling zoom based on event details, not just the axes handle as I show below.

z = zoom(gcf);

z.Enable = 'on';

z.ButtonDownFilter = @(ax,evt) zoomFilter(ax,evt);

arrayOfAxesHandlesForWhichZoomShouldBeDisabled = [ax1, ax2, ax3];

function isZoomSupressed = zoomFilter(ax,evt)

isZoomSupressed = any(arrayOfAxesHandlesForWhichZoomShouldBeDisabled == ax);

end

[Giuela]

Thank you Marcel, I will try your solution