All available default settings for groot?

Hello,

Today I've found that I can change the default order of line colors and line styles of multi-line plot using

set(groot, 'DefaultAxesColorOrder', newcolors)
set(groot, 'DefaultAxesLineStyleOrder', '-|:|.-')
% https://kr.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/20187-how-to-change-the-standard-of-coloring-figures

So I digged a little bit further, and found I can also set stuff like

set(groot, 'defaultLineLineWidth', 2)
set(groot, 'defaultFigureColor', 'b')
% https://kr.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/default-property-values.html

set(groot, 'DefaultFigureColormap', hot)
% https://kr.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/groot.html

set(groot, 'Units', 'normalized')
% https://kr.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.root-properties.html

Is there any reference page that lists all available default settings for groot? I don't understand why those default settings are separated in several pages. I could not even find 'DefaultAxesColorOrder' except the answers page above.

Thank you.

Kang

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

Those "properties" aren't properties of groot. See this documentation page for a description of that syntax for setting default property values for other Handle Graphics objects that will be created under groot in the future. Note that you can set the defaults at a more granular level too, setting the default for all Axes created in a figure without affecting Axes created in another figure as an example.

At least theoretically you can set the default property value for any settable property of a Handle Graphics this way. [I'm not aware of any exceptions.] Some may be more useful than others (setting the 'DefaultLineXData' at best won't do anything, and at worst could cause your attempt to create a line to issue a warning and not draw the line.)

Answer 2

[David]

I'm five years late, but whatever...

get(groot, 'default')

--> returns all root-level default values currently set.

get(groot, 'factory')

--> returns the complete factory defaults for all object types and properties.

Answer 3

[Image Analyst]

Type groot on the command line:

>> groot

ans =

Graphics Root with properties:

CurrentFigure: [0×0 GraphicsPlaceholder]

ScreenPixelsPerInch: 96

ScreenSize: [1 1 1920 1080]

MonitorPositions: [1 1 1920 1080]

Units: 'pixels'

Show all properties

CallbackObject: [0×0 GraphicsPlaceholder]

Children: [0×0 GraphicsPlaceholder]

CurrentFigure: [0×0 GraphicsPlaceholder]

FixedWidthFontName: 'Courier New'

HandleVisibility: 'on'

MonitorPositions: [1 1 1920 1080]

Parent: [0×0 GraphicsPlaceholder]

PointerLocation: [545 93]

ScreenDepth: 32

ScreenPixelsPerInch: 96

ScreenSize: [1 1 1920 1080]

ShowHiddenHandles: off

Tag: ''

Type: 'root'

Units: 'pixels'

UserData: []

[lazymatlab]

Thank you for your answer. But I can't find some stuff like 'defaultAxesColorOrder' or 'defaultFigureColormap' from this list, even though they are available to be set using set(groot, ...).