Putting one legend for many axes - matlab

Question

I'm using three axes-Objects to scale my data on the x-axis.
My problem is that i do not know how to get a nice legend for the three plots.
I have to do this cause my real data is sampled with different sample rates.
I edited my m-file for the diagram slightly cause normally I'm reading the data out of some txt files.
In this example i used example_data 1 to 3 for my data.
In this example I'm scaling the example_data1 so it looks like the same frequency as example_data2.
I do the 'scaling' ax1.XLim = [0 length(x2)].
That's why this solution doesn't work for me: Plot with multiple axes but only one legend.
It uses set(l3,'Parent',ax2); which somehow ruins my approache to scale my data. The scaling is the only solution to my problem cause i don't know the exact relation between the two sampling rates.
my code:
example_data1 = repmat(1:100,1,10);
example_data2 = 2 * repmat(1:0.5:100.5,1,5);
example_data3 = [1:500 500:-1:1];
whole_length_data1 = length(example_data1);
% 1. step
start_of_data = 1;
end_of_data = 1000;
% data2
y2 = example_data2(start_of_data:end_of_data);
x2 = 0:length(y2)-1;
% data3
y3 = example_data3(start_of_data:end_of_data);
x3 = 0:length(y3)-1;
% data1
y1 = example_data1(1:length(example_data1));
x1 = 0:length(y1)-1;
% 2. step
start_one = 1;
y1 = example_data1(start_one:length(example_data1));
x1 = 0:length(y1)-1;
% 3.step
end_one = whole_length_data1 - 500;
y1 = example_data1(start_one:end_one);
x1 = 0:length(y1)-1;
Farbe1 = [0,1,0]*0.6; % Dunkelgrün
Farbe2 = [1,0,0]*0.8; % Dunkelrot
Farbe3 = get(groot,'DefaultAxesColorOrder') % default values
Farbe3 = Farbe3(1,:); % 1. Zeile der defaultvalues
figure(1)
% 3 axes
clf
%------------------------------------------------------------------
%-------------------------- plot1: ---------------------------
%------------------------------------------------------------------
plot(x2,y2,'green','LineWidth',2,'Color',Farbe1,...
'DisplayName','name of the first plot')
ax1 = gca;
ax1.XLim = [0 length(x2)]
ax1.YLim = [min(y2) max(y2)]
ax1.YTick = [0:25:300]
ax1.FontSize = 12;
legend('show')
%----------------------------------------------------------------
%-------------------------- plot2: --------------------------
%----------------------------------------------------------------
ax2 = axes('Position',ax1.Position);
plot(x3,y3,'blue','LineWidth',2,'Color',Farbe3,...
'DisplayName','plot2')
ax2.Color = 'none';
ax2.XTick = [];
ax2.XLim = [0 length(x3)];
ax2.YAxisLocation = 'right';
ax2.FontSize = 12;
legend('show')
%----------------------------------------------------------------
%-------------------------- plot3: -------------------------
%----------------------------------------------------------------
ax3 = axes('Position',ax1.Position);
plot(x1,y1,'red','LineWidth',2,'Color',Farbe2,...
'DisplayName','3')
ax3.XTick = [];
ax3.YTick = [];
ax3.Color = 'none';
ax3.XAxisLocation = 'top';
ax3.YAxisLocation = 'right';
ax3.XLim = [0 length(x1)];
ax3.YLim = [min(y1) max(y1)*2];
legend('show')
This results in a very bad looking legend:
I really hope somebody can help me.
Thank very much.

Answer 1

You can get better results by storing handles for each of your plot lines, then passing those to a single legend call:
...
h1 = plot(x2,y2,'green','LineWidth',2,'Color',Farbe1,...
'DisplayName','name of the first plot');
...
h2 = plot(x3,y3,'blue','LineWidth',2,'Color',Farbe3,...
'DisplayName','plot2');
...
h3 = plot(x1,y1,'red','LineWidth',2,'Color',Farbe2,...
'DisplayName','3');
...
hl = legend(ax3, [h1 h2 h3]); % Place legend in top-most axes
And here's the result:

Answer 2

Just use the real timestamps as x values:
fig = figure;
plot(x1/length(y1)*end_of_data, y1, 'LineWidth',2, 'Color',Farbe1, 'DisplayName','First plot')
hold on
plot(x2/length(y2)*end_of_data, y2, 'LineWidth',2, 'Color',Farbe2, 'DisplayName','Second plot')
plot(x3/length(y3)*end_of_data, y3, 'LineWidth',2, 'Color',Farbe3, 'DisplayName','Third plot')
legend