Question

I want to add a new toggle button to the figure toolbar. When it is clicked, I want to “untoggle” any other buttons that were toggled. E.g, if the “rotation” or “zoom” toggle buttons were pressed, I want to untoggle them and their effect.
Simply getting all their handles does not work, as this does not deactivate their effect.

Answer 1

You should first find all of the children of toolbar. You can do it by the following command (Assuming that currentToggleButton is a handle to current toggle button):

 get( get(currentToggleButton,'Parent'),'Children');

Then do the following:

  set(children,'State','off'); 

Of course, you need to return the state of your current button to on.

  set(currentToggleButton,'State','on');

By the way, if you are using GUIDE, you can add zoom,rotate and pan as pre-defined tools. In that case, Matlab will handle the toggling automatically.

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In order to turn off the effect of zooming/pan/rotation, you can do:

 zoom('off')
 pan('off')
 rotate3d('off')

or you can use another syntax version (as @Eitan also mentions)

 zoom off
 pan off
 rotate3d off