Matt J

Pretty nice. It's about time someone figured out how to do this. My one wish would be that it be possible to trigger a linked datatip from any of the plots in the set, and not just fig(1). That way I wouldn't have to relaunch the function and reorder the input handles everytime I need a different image to serve as the reference.

Have you ever tried compiling this under LCC? I get a slew of errors when I do. Visual C works fine.

Oleg, I fixed some of the ragged text justification and uncommented some of the text. Not sure if those were the unreadabilities that you were talking about, though. The Description editor is a little unwieldy and gives me very limited control of spacing.

an interesting decoder...
however, the code could be simplified as shown below
in particular, there is no need for
- various temporary vars
- a loop

%...
fields=fieldnames(S);
sname=inputname(idx);
if isempty(sname), sname='S'; end
nf=numel(fields);
nr=ceil(nf/nCols);
assigns=repmat({' '},nr,nCols);
if RHS
assigns(1:nf)=cellfun(@(f) [f ' = ' sname '.' f '; '],fields,'uni',0);
else
assigns(1:nf)=cellfun(@(f) [sname '.' f ' = ' f '; '],fields,'uni',0);
end
assigns=reshape(char(assigns.').',[],nr).';

just a thought...
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