mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap Class

Namespace: mlreportgen.dom

Map of hyperlink areas in image

Description

Use an object of the mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap class to create a map of image areas, which are areas in an image that you can click to open content in a browser or to navigate to another location in the same page. You can create image maps in reports with PDF or HTML output. Define areas using mlreportgen.dom.ImageArea and append them to the map. Assign the ImageMap to the Map of the mlreportgen.dom.Image class.

The mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap class is a handle class.

Creation

Description

map = ImageMap creates an empty image map. Use the ImageMap.append method to add image areas to the map.

Properties

StyleName — Name of stylesheet-defined style

[] (default) | character vector | string scalar

Name of stylesheet-defined style, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The style name is the name of a style specified in the style sheet of the document or document part to which this element is appended. The specified style defines the appearance of this element in the output document unless the formats specified by the Style property of this element override it. To learn more about using style sheets, see Use Style Sheet Styles.

Note

Microsoft^® Word reports ignore style names that are not defined in the document template. For more information on Microsoft Word templates, see Templates for DOM API Report Programs.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

Style — Format specification

{} (default) | cell array of DOM format objects

Format specification for this document element object, specified as a cell array of DOM format objects. The formats specified by this property override corresponding formats specified by the StyleName property of this element. Formats that do not apply to this document element object are ignored.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: cell

CustomAttributes — Custom attributes of document element

[] (default) | array of mlreportgen.dom.CustomAttribute objects

Custom attributes of the document element, specified as an array of mlreportgen.dom.CustomAttribute objects. The custom attributes must be supported by the output format of the document element to which this object is appended.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Parent — Parent of this object

document element object

Parent of this object, specified as a document element object. A document element must have only one parent.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	private
NonCopyable	true

Children — Children of this object

array of document element objects

Children of this object, specified as an array of document element objects. This property contains the document element objects appended using the append method.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	private
NonCopyable	true

Tag — Tag

character vector | string scalar

Tag, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The DOM API generates a session-unique tag as part of the creation of this object. The generated tag has the form CLASS:ID, where CLASS is the object class and ID is the value of the Id property of the object. Use this value to help identify where an issue occurs during document generation.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

Id — Object identifier

character vector | string scalar

Object identifier, specified as a character vector or string scalar. The DOM API generates a session-unique identifier when it creates the document element object.

Attributes:

GetAccess	public
SetAccess	public
NonCopyable	true

Data Types: char | string

Methods

Public Methods

Method	Purpose
append	objImageAreaOut = append(objImageMap,objImageArea) appends an ImageArea object to the mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap object. Input Arguments objImageMap — Image map to append image area to, specified as an mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap object. objImageArea — Appended image area, specified as an mlreportgen.dom.ImageArea object. Return Values objImageAreaOut — Image map object copy, returned as an mlreportgen.dom.ImageArea object
clone	copiedObj = clone(soureceObj) returns a copy of the mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap object specified by soureceObj. The copy includes the children of the source object, but not the parent. Note Do not append the same object to a document more than once. Use clone to create a copy when you want to reuse the same content elsewhere in a document. Input Arguments soureceObj — Object to clone, specified as an mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap object Return Values copiedObj— Object copy, returned as an mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap object For more information, see the equivalent method for the mlreportgen.dom.Paragraph class, clone.

Examples

Append an Image Area to an Image Map

Define an ImageArea object that specifies the size and location of the area and the action that occurs when you click the area. Then append the area to an ImageMap object.

import mlreportgen.dom.*
d = Document("imageArea","pdf");

% Create a plot and save it as an image file
x = 0:pi/100:2*pi;
y = sin(x);
plot(x,y);
annotation("textbox", [0.2,0.4,0.1,0.1],...
           "string", "Help on plot function");
saveas(gcf,"plot_img.png");

% Create the DOM image object and append it to your document
plot1 = Image("plot_img.png");
append(d,plot1);

% Define the area and link target using ImageArea
target = ["https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/" ...
"plot.html?searchHighlight=plot"];
area1 = ImageArea( target, ...
"plot function help",160,340,383,392);

% Create the image map object and append the area to it
map = ImageMap();
append(map,area1);
plot1.Map = map;

close(d);
rptview(d.OutputPath);

More About

Append content to mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap object

You can append these DOM objects to an mlreportgen.dom.ImageMap object:

• mlreportgen.dom.ImageArea

Version History

Introduced in R2014b