Plot continuous line based on user input

So I have a user click on the plot.

The code is as such: [xClic,yClic]=ginput(1);

How would I plot a line with a slope of one that goes infinitely until it hits the y axis. The start of the line should be the [xClic,yClic].

Any ideas? All help appreciated.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

"How would I plot a line with a slope of one that goes infinitely until it hits the y axis"

I'm interpreting this as a line that extends from point (xClic,yClic) to the point that crosses the vertical line at x=0, with a slope of 1.

If that interpretation is correct, all you need to so is compute the y intercept.

% Point where user clicked
xClic = -2; 
yClic= -5; 

% Plot that point
plot(xClic, yClic,'bo')
xlim([-8 8])
ylim([-8,8])
hold on

% Compute y intercept for slope of 1
b = yClic-1*xClic;

% Plot the line between the click point and the y intercept
plot([xClic,0],[yClic,b],'b-')

A similar approach is to use refline() but that extends to your axis limits.

h = refline(1,b)
h.LineStyle = ':'