Question
How do I obtain the coordinates of the mouse on the screen displayed somewhere in my figure window?
Expert Answer
Prashant Kumar
PhD Expert
Answered Aug 26, 2026
This enhancement has been incorporated in MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b).
As a workaround in previous MATLAB releases, you can use the following MATLAB function to track mouse motion:
function mousetrk
%MOUSETRK function to track mouse motion
% This function creates two static text controls
% which contain the x & y coordinates of the mouse
% The driving callback is executed by the
% WindowButtonMotionFcn of the figure.
figure
axes('Visible','off')
xbox = uicontrol('Style','text','Tag','xbox');
xboxlabel = uicontrol('Style','text','String','X Value',...
'Position',get(xbox,'position')+[0 21 0 0]);
ybox = uicontrol('Style','text','Position',[90 20 60 20],'Tag','ybox');
yboxlabel = uicontrol('Style','text','String','Y Value',...
'Position',get(ybox,'position')+[0 21 0 0]);
callback = ['pt = get(gca,''CurrentPoint'');'...
'xbox = findobj(''Tag'',''xbox'');' ...
'ybox = findobj(''Tag'',''ybox'');' ...
'set(xbox,''String'',num2str(pt(1,1)));' ...
'set(ybox,''String'',num2str(pt(1,2)));'];
set(gcf,'WindowButtonMotionFcn',callback);
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