Automatically maximize a figure

Question

I am creating some figures in MATLAB and automatically save them to files. The problem that by definition the images are small. A good way to solve my problem by hand is to create an image (figure), maximize it, and save to a file.

I am missing this step of automatically maximize a figure.

Any suggestions? Up till now I only found this:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071127135551AAR5JYh

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/238699

but none are solving my problem.

Answer 1

This worked for me:

figure('units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]) 

or for current figure:

set(gcf,'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]) 

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I have also used MAXIMIZE function on FileExchange that uses java. This is true maximization.

Answer 2

For an actual Maximize (exactly like clicking the maximize button in the UI of OS X and Windows) You may try the following which calls a hidden Java handle

figure; pause(0.00001); frame_h = get(handle(gcf),'JavaFrame'); set(frame_h,'Maximized',1); 

The pause(n) is essential as the above reaches out of the Matlab scape and is situated on a separate Java thread. Set n to any value and check the results. The faster the computer is at the time of execution the smaller n can be.

Full "documentation" can be found here