Overview tool for image displayed in scroll panel


hfig = imoverview(...)


imoverview(himage) creates an Overview tool associated with the image specified by the handle himage, called the target image. The target image must be contained in a scroll panel created by imscrollpanel.

The Overview tool is a navigation aid for images displayed in a scroll panel. imoverview creates the tool in a separate figure window that displays the target image in its entirety, scaled to fit. Over this scaled version of the image, the tool draws a rectangle, called the detail rectangle, that shows the portion of the target image that is currently visible in the scroll panel. To view portions of the image that are not currently visible in the scroll panel, move the detail rectangle in the Overview tool.

The following figure shows the Image Tool with the Overview tool.

hfig = imoverview(...) returns a handle to the Overview tool figure.


To create an Overview tool that can be embedded in an existing figure or uipanel object, use imoverviewpanel.


Create a figure, disabling the toolbar and menubar, because the toolbox navigation tools are not compatible with the standard MATLAB® zoom and pan tools. Then create a scroll panel in the figure and use scroll panel API functions to set the magnification.

hFig = figure('Toolbar','none',...
hIm = imshow('tape.png');
hSP = imscrollpanel(hFig,hIm);
api = iptgetapi(hSP);
api.setMagnification(2) % 2X = 200%
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