The warnings about the figure’s JavaFrame property becoming deprecated have fortunately not been fulfilled (hopefully never). Here are a few observations that I collected on the latest HG2, as reflected in R2013a: Hopefully this will change when HG2 is officially released. It is real a pity that many of these customizations rely on hidden/undocumented properties (see below). I am pretty excited from the huge number of additional possible customizations in HG2 compared to HG1. Notice how much more customizable HG2 is compared to HG1. Here’s a simple plot line as it appears in both HG1 and HG2: HG2 has improved grid lines, plot anti-aliasing and customizable everything (more on this below). I also have a gut feeling that MathWorks will name that release 9.0 rather than 8.3, in keeping with its arch-rival Mathematica. It is possible that this could happen as early as the upcoming release (R2013b, 8.2) but I have a gut feeling that it will be in R2014a. This is good news, which leads me to think that HG2 will be released soon. The latest HG2 appears to be quite stable, and in my experience most GUI/graphics utilities run as-is, without any need for tweaking. In the past few years, development of HG2 has apparently progressed to a stage where most of the kinks were ironed out. I decided that it was time to revisit the latest state of HG2, as reflected in the latest release, R2013a (Matlab 8.1). But three years and six releases have passed, Matlab 7 turned into Matlab 8, and HG1 is still in use. At the time, I was sure that HG2 was just around the corner. Exactly three years ago, I posted information ( here and here) about Matlab’s upcoming new graphics engine, so-called HG2 ( Handle Graphics version 2).
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