hggroup of text() objects and contextmenu

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THE SITUATION

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I am creating text labels

h = text([.5 1],[.5 .5],{'hi','hello'});
plotedit on

which individually have a contextmenu that allow to change their text properties, e.g. try to right-click and change Font...

However, I'd like to keep the same contextmenu for a hggroup() of text() objects.

hg = hggroup;
set(h,'Parent',hg)

The text properties are not reachable from the context menu associated to hggroup().

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THE QUESTION

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Is there a way to have a contextmenu for the hggroup object with the menus for the text properties without recreating it manually with all the callbacks? For instance, scatter() creates such a contextmenu

figure
load seamount
scatter(x,y,5)
plotedit on

you can right click and change some properties of all children of the hggroup.

I have the feeling the solution already exists but it's undocumented and well hidden.

I've been looking into $MATLABROOT\toolbox\matlab\specgraph, graph2d, graphics to no avail.

I suspect that the various schemas might play a role, i.e. what if I define a schema for text()?

PS. Let me know if I didn't express myself clearly.

[Jan]

I do not get the problem. Why not appending the context menu to the children of the hggroup?

[Oleg Komarov]

I am trying to right click on any of the children and modify a property with a context menu for all of the children. Will your suggestion work in that way?

[Oleg Komarov]

Is there any way I can access the "inbuilt" contextmenu for the text label and copy-paste it to the hggroup?

[Jan]

I don't know. But my trials with R2009b seem to show, that the UIContextMenu of the hggroup is not triggered by a right-click on the text objects. As far as I can see creating a new context menu and attach it to all children of the hggroup should be able to do everything possible.

[Oleg Komarov]

I quickly tested it and I like so far the behavior. I will play with it a bit longer to see if the solution satisfies my objectives (which are still not completely determined).

[Oleg Komarov]

At the end I did not find a way around, and recreating the whole contextmenu takes quite some time (which is what I wanted to avoid).

Answer 1

[Yair Altman]

Oleg, you can simply reuse the localGetNonScribeScribeContextMenu() subfunction in %matlabroot/toolbox/matlab/graph2d/private/plotSelectMode.m. It is called by localWindowButtonDownFcn() in that same file whenever you right-click an object in plot-selection mode.

Whenever you right click an object in this mode, the standard scribe context-menu (which include all the text items that you need) is recreated and added to the bottom of the object's existing context-menu (if available).

So you can simply cut all the red tape and reuse the localGetNonScribeScribeContextMenu() code directly when you create the initial context-menu.

[Jan]

Due to the name "localGetNonScribeScribeContextMenu" I would not use the term "simply" here ;-)