datatipSetOrientation Set the position of the text box associated with the given tip.

## Syntax

                datatipSetOrientation(tip_handle,orient)

## Arguments

tip_handle

  A handle on a datatip.

orient

  A character string with possible values: `"automatic"`, `"upper left"` ,`"upper right"`, `"lower left"`, `"lower right"`, `"left"`, `"right"`, `"upper"`, or `"lower"`.

## Description

Set the position on the text box with respect to the polyline point. With the `"automatic"` orientation the program makes the choice of the position trying to prevent text from overlapping polyline, it also tries to to keep the text box within the plot boundaries.

## Examples

        x=linspace(-20,20,1000);
        clf()
        plot(x,sinc(x),x,sinc(x.^2));
        e=gce();e=e.children;
        d1=datatipCreate(e(1),500);
        d2=datatipCreate(e(2),60);
        datatipSetOrientation(d1,"lower left");
        datatipSetOrientation(d2,"lower right");

x=linspace(-20,20,1000); plot(x,sinc(x),x,sinc(x.^2)); e=gce();e=e.children; d1=datatipCreate(e(1),500); d2=datatipCreate(e(2),60); datatipSetOrientation(d1,"lower left"); datatipSetOrientation(d2,"lower right");

## See also

- datatips
- datatipCreate
- datatipRemove

## History

5.5.2

New "orient" values available: "left", "right", "upper", "lower".