ZoomBox

Movable, stretchable zoom box in parent axes controls axes limits in all children axes.

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Move this box around to zoom in on or pan across another axes. Similar in functionality to SPTOOL zoom and pan.
Ideal for signal processing, large data sets, and time series data.

Cite As

Doug Hull (2026). ZoomBox (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/2884-zoombox), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired by: moveplot.m, Mastering Mechanics 1: Using MATLAB 5

Inspired: On-figure magnifier

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.4.0.1

Updated license

1.4.0.0

MATLAB is case sensitive for function calls. Updated.

1.2.0.0

copyright

1.1.0.0

generating license

1.0.0.0

Modified to support
multiple figures,
large data sets,
cursors that change with shape to show function,
cleaned up the code in general,
return hold to original state,
removed dependency on MOVEPLOT by Brandon K,
added some HTML doc.