I try to present 8 (name) labels on my x-axis. Instead, I get number 1 to 8.
Problem: In my previous asked question, I used gca function, that allows me to change axis labels. However, the same gca function doesn't work here.
This is my MatLab output:
Instead of 1,...8, I want to see Firm1...Firm8!
This is my code:
figure(2);
%four variables:
%pi --> 8x1 vector
%E_R_BL_Idzorek --> 8x1 vector
%pi_star1 --> 8x1 vector
%ER_100_TF1 --> 8x1 vector
ALL_DATA=[pi(1,1) E_R_BL_Idzorek(1,1) pi_star1(1,1) ER_100_TF1(1,1);pi(2,1) E_R_BL_Idzorek(2,1) pi_star1(2,1) ER_100_TF1(2,1);pi(3,1) E_R_BL_Idzorek(3,1) pi_star1(3,1) ER_100_TF1(3,1);pi(4,1) E_R_BL_Idzorek(4,1) pi_star1(4,1) ER_100_TF1(4,1);pi(5,1) E_R_BL_Idzorek(5,1) pi_star1(5,1) ER_100_TF1(5,1);pi(6,1) E_R_BL_Idzorek(6,1) pi_star1(6,1) ER_100_TF1(6,1);pi(7,1) E_R_BL_Idzorek(7,1) pi_star1(7,1) ER_100_TF1(7,1);pi(8,1) E_R_BL_Idzorek(8,1) pi_star1(8,1),ER_100_TF1(8,1)];
%plotting it with a bar function
bar(ALL_DATA);
%This is where I have problem with gca function
set(gca,'xticklabel',{'Firm1','Firm2','Firm3','Firm4','Firm5','Firm6','Firm7','Firm8'});
%this is the grid part:
grid on
ll = cell(1,4);
ll{1}='pi'; ll{2}='ERidz'; ll{3}='piTF'; ll{4}='ERTF';
legend(bar(ALL_DATA),ll);
You are using a newer version of MATLAB so you should use the newer graphics system. The newer system is based on objects. This makes setting properties of things like axes easier. For example:
fh = figure; % creates the figure window save the figure handle to set it's properties
ax = axes(fh); % creates the axes in the figure, again save the object
x = rand(8,100);
h = bar(ax, x); % create the bar graph in your axes object
% now use the saved object to access the exact feature you want. This way you always have the thing you want. No searching.
ax.XTickLabel = {'Firm1','Firm2','Firm3','Firm4','Firm5','Firm6','Firm7','Firm8'};
Saving the objects is also handy for tracking legends and other things. For example: legend(ax,... You know exactly which legend you're dealing with.
What appears to be happening is that you are correctly changing the XTicks as you want but then you overwrite your graph with legend(bar(.... That creates a new bar graph. Try changing that line to just legend(ll). I would still suggest using the object system.
It seems the problem is that you redraw the bar when you run
legend(bar(ALL_DATA),ll);
You should simply do
legend(ll);
Related
I am trying to bold the right side y axis for a Pareto plot in Matlab, but I can not get it to work. Does anyone have any suggestions? When I try to change the second dimension of ax, I get an error:
"Index exceeds matrix dimensions.
Error in pcaCluster (line 66)
set(ax(2),'Linewidth',2.0);"
figure()
ax=gca();
h1=pareto(ax,explained,X);
xlabel('Principal Component','fontweight','b','fontsize',20)
ylabel('Variance Explained (%)','fontweight','b','fontsize',20)
set(ax(1),'Linewidth',2.0);
set(ax(1),'fontsize',18,'fontweight','b');
%set(ax(2),'Linewidth',2.0);
%set(ax(2),'fontsize',18,'fontweight','b');
set(h1,'LineWidth',2)
Actually you need to add an output argument during the call to pareto and you will then get 2 handles (the line and the bar series) as well as 2 axes. You want to get the YTickLabel property of the 2nd axes obtained. So I suspect that in your call to pareto above you do not need to supply the ax argument.
Example:
[handlesPareto, axesPareto] = pareto(explained,X);
Now if you use this command:
RightYLabels = get(axesPareto(2),'YTickLabel')
you get the following (or something similar):
RightYLabels =
'0%'
'14%'
'29%'
'43%'
'58%'
'72%'
'87%'
'100%'
What you can do is actually to erase them altogether and replace them with text annotations, which you can customize as you like. See here for a nice demonstration.
Applied to your problem (with dummy values from the function docs), here is what you can do:
clear
clc
close all
y = [90,75,30,60,5,40,40,5];
figure
[hPareto, axesPareto] = pareto(y);
%// Get the poisition of YTicks and the YTickLabels of the right y-axis.
yticks = get(axesPareto(2),'YTick')
RightYLabels = cellstr(get(axesPareto(2),'YTickLabel'))
%// You need the xlim, i.e. the x limits of the axes. YTicklabels are displayed at the end of the axis.
xl = xlim;
%// Remove current YTickLabels to replace them.
set(axesPareto(2),'YTickLabel',[])
%// Add new labels, in bold font.
for k = 1:numel(RightYLabels)
BoldLabels(k) = text(xl(2)+.1,yticks(k),RightYLabels(k),'FontWeight','bold','FontSize',18);
end
xlabel('Principal Component','fontweight','b','fontsize',20)
ylabel('Variance Explained (%)','fontweight','b','fontsize',20)
which gives this:
You can of course customize everything you want like this.
That is because ax is a handle to the (first/left) axes object. It is a single value and with ax(1) you got lucky, its ax again, but ax(2) is simply not valid.
I suggest to read the docs about how to get the second axis. Another good idea always is to open the plot in the plot browser, click whatever object you want so it is selected and then get its handle by typing gco (get current object) in the command window. You can then use it with set(gco, ...).
I have the following code in Matlab that runs through a for loop, reads data from a file and plots 9 different figures, that correspond to some particular "channels" in my data, so I decided to annotate them in the for loop.
clear
clc
for i=1:9
subplot(3,3,i);
hold on
x = [4 13]; % from your example
y = ([1 1]); % from your example
y2 = ([-0.4 -0.4]);
H=area(x,y,'LineStyle','none',...
'FaceColor',[1 0.949019610881805 0.866666674613953]);
H1=area(x,y2,'LineStyle','none',...
'FaceColor',[1 0.949019610881805 0.866666674613953]);
% Create textbox
annotation('textbox',...
[0.719849840255583 0.603626943005185 0.176316293929713 0.308290155440411],...
'String',{'FABLIGHT04','Channel',i},...
'FontWeight','bold',...
'FontSize',10,...
'FontName','Geneva',...
'FitBoxToText','off',...
'EdgeColor','none');
axis([0 24 -0.4 1])
set(gca,'XTick',[0:1:24])
set(gca,'YTick',[-0.4:0.2:1])
xlabel('Time (s)');
end
Initially it was giving me 9 different figures and the annotation thing worked fine. But I wanted to be able to tile them onto a subplot for easier comparison.
Since I switched over to using subplot, it does not annotate my figure properly. On opening the editing dock and generating the code, I find that matlab is plotting everything first and then just putting the annotation boxes in the same figure, one on top of the other. Looking at the code it generated, it apparently takes this part of the code:
annotation('textbox',...
[0.719849840255583 0.603626943005185 0.176316293929713 0.308290155440411],...
'String',{'FABLIGHT04','Channel',i},...
'FontWeight','bold',...
'FontSize',10,...
'FontName','Geneva',...
'FitBoxToText','off',...
'EdgeColor','none');
and does it as:
annotation(figure1,'textbox'...)
etc etc
So for all 9 text boxes, it puts them onto the same figure. I tried to do S=subplot(3,3,i) then annotation(S,'textbox') etc etc, I have also tried S(i)=subplot(3,3,i) and then annotation(S,'textbox') etc etc but nothing seems to work.
I have also tried to change the location of the box. I can't seem to figure out how to make it smaller either.
Does anyone know how to have annotation boxes in the right subplot in a for loop?
Thanks
I'm afraid annotation objects are properties of figures and NOT axes, as such its harder to customize the position of each annotation objects because no matter how many subplots you have, they are all part of the same figure and you need to specify their position relatively to the figure coordinate system.
Therefore, you can manually set the position of each text box in your code depending on the subplot it belongs to...
Simple example:
clear
clc
close all
figure('Units','normalized'); %// new figure window
for k = 1:2
str = sprintf('Subplot %d',k);
subplot(1,2,k)
plot(rand(1,10));
%// Customize position here
hAnnot(k) = annotation('textbox', [k*.4-.2 .6 .1 .1],...
'String', str,'FontSize',14);
end
Which looks like this:
Its not very elegant but I'm personally not aware of any other option if you do need to use annotations objects. A less cumbersome alternative would be to use a simple text objects, which are properties of axes and therefore much more friendly to position :)
Hope that helps!
Context:
I have a (programmatic) GUI which contains several axes objects inside some uipanel parenting structure. Some of these axes have legend objects associated, some don't.
I want to include a button in my GUI which copies the currently visible plot into a new figure including its legend if it has one.
I know how to get the handles to the currently visible uipanel and all axes objects inside it. I also know how to tell the axes apart from the legends.
Question:
How can I match the legends to the axes?
For example, in one case my GUI shows 2 axes with some plots, each of which has its own legend. When I click the 'export' button, I want 2 new figures to be created, each containing one axes with its corresponding legend.
What I'm currently able to do is
put everything in one figure (they overlap in that case because their positions in the original uipanels are the same),
put each axes and each legend into their own respective figures,
put all axes in one and all legends in another figure and
put all axes in their own figure with all legends within the same panel.
split it up by panel, that is, put all subplots into the same figure and each group of plots in their own figure.
Problem:
The problem is, I don't have the handles to either of those objects. I only have the handles to the uipanel objects. The graphics inside the panels are built by another function which contains all sorts of tricky stuff, but doesn't return handles. Also the parenting structure of said panels makes it rather hard to do this with tricks like get(handles.panels{1},'Children') because it will work in some, but not all cases.
I thought about simply exporting the panels (and have actually a working version which does this), but this has several problems, mainly related to figure tools and resizing. I want to get rid of the panels when I use the "Export" button.
Code Snippet / Example:
The following code snippet will create an example GUI with access to all handles I have access to in my complete GUI. Clicking the buttons will show the different versions I got to "work". What I want is one figure for each axes including its legend, if it has one. the 4th version (same parent) comes close, but breaks if it encounters subplots, the 5th version (by panel) simply puts entire subplot groups into one window (in which case, at least, they don't overlap). Copy the code into a new .mfile to try it.
function test
figure(1)
clf
t=(0:0.1:10)'; %'// dummy comment
p2 = uipanel('Visible','off','Position',[0 0 1 1]);
p1 = uipanel('position',[0 0 1 1]);
p11 = uipanel('Parent',p1,'Position',[0 0 0.5 0.9]);
p12 = uipanel('Parent',p1,'Position',[0.5 0 0.5 0.9]);
uicontrol('Style','push','String','all in one','Units','norm',...
'Position',[0.05 0.91 0.14 0.06],'Callback',#export1);
uicontrol('Style','push','String','all in own','Units','norm',...
'Position',[0.24 0.91 0.14 0.06],'Callback',#export2);
uicontrol('Style','push','String','by type','Units','norm',...
'Position',[0.43 0.91 0.14 0.06],'Callback',#export3);
uicontrol('Style','push','String','same parent','Units','norm',...
'Position',[0.62 0.91 0.14 0.06],'Callback',#export4);
uicontrol('Style','push','String','same panel','Units','norm',...
'Position',[0.81 0.91 0.14 0.06],'Callback',#export5);
subplot(1,1,1,'Parent',p11)
plot(t,[sin(t) cos(t)])
legend('Sine','Cosine')
subplot(2,1,1,'Parent',p12)
plot(t,[polyval([0.05 -1 2],t) exp(-t) abs(t-3)])
subplot(2,1,2,'Parent',p12)
plot(t,erf(t))
legend('Error function')
function export1(~,~)
current = findobj('Type','uipanel','Parent',1,'Visible','on');
visible_axes = findobj(current,'Type','axes');
copyobj(visible_axes,figure);
end
function export2(~,~)
current = findobj('Type','uipanel','Parent',1,'Visible','on');
visible_axes = findobj(current,'Type','axes');
for i=1:length(visible_axes)
copyobj(visible_axes(i),figure);
end
end
function export3(~,~)
current = findobj('Type','uipanel','Parent',1,'Visible','on');
visible_axes = findobj(current,'Type','axes','Tag','');
visible_legends = findobj(current,'Tag','legend');
copyobj(visible_axes,figure);
copyobj(visible_legends,figure);
end
function export4(~,~)
current = findobj('Type','uipanel','Parent',1,'Visible','on');
visible_axes = findobj(current,'Type','axes','Tag','');
visible_legends = findobj(current,'Tag','legend');
for i=1:length(visible_axes)
par = get(visible_axes(i),'Parent');
same = findobj(visible_legends,'Parent',par);
h=figure;
copyobj(visible_axes(i),h)
copyobj(same,h)
end
end
function export5(~,~)
current = findobj('Type','uipanel','Parent',1,'Visible','on');
visible_axes = findobj(current,'Type','axes');
parents = cell2mat(get(visible_axes,'Parent'));
uparents = unique(parents);
for i=1:length(uparents)
copyobj(visible_axes(parents==uparents(i)),figure)
end
end
end
In a figure, graphical objects are organized hierarchically and can all be handled individually. For instance, axes is a child of a figure, plot is a child of an axes, and legends are build as axes.
The following example plots 2 lines (red and blue, with legends), then mixes plots and legends using copyobj.
figure;
subplot(1,2,1)
hp1 = plot(1:10,'r')
hl1 = legend('red')
subplot(1,2,2)
hp2 = plot(1:10,'b')
hl2 = legend('blue')
hf = figure;
hax = axes;
copyobj(hp1, hax); %copy plot to axes
copyobj(hl2, hf); %copy legend to figure
Not tested with a GUI though.
I think the simpler solution is to save the axes of the figure you're about to save as a fig file.
h = figure(1);
x = linspace(1,100);
y = 2*x;
ax = findall(h,'type','axes');
plot(x,y);
save('youraxes', 'ax');
hgsave(h, 'yourfig.fig');
I'm using Matlab R2012a, alternatively in R2013a or b the function to save the fig is now savefig.
Once you have obtained the axes handle you can find the corresponding legend handle using
legend_handle = legend(axes_handle)
If f is the figure handle, I wanted to use plot3(..) on it just like I would use plot(..), but this didn't work:
>> plot3(f, t, real(Y), imag(Y))
Error using plot3
Vectors must be the same lengths.
Then I figured out that the way to do this is to:
First make the relevant figure current.
Then use the plot3(..) function.
I can find what the current figure is using gcf, but how do I make a figure current (via its handle)?
This method has my personal preference:
set(0, 'currentfigure', f); %# for figures
set(f, 'currentaxes', axs); %# for axes with handle axs on figure f
because these commands are their own documentation. I find
figure(f)
and the like confusing on first read -- do you create a new figure? or merely make an existing one active? -> more reading of the context is required.
It is actually as simple as feeding the f back into the figure(..) command:
figure(f) %Makes the figure current.
Also, if I did something like this:
f = figure('IntegerHandle','off'); % With unique, non-reusable handle.
top = subplot(2, 1, 1);
bot = subplot(2, 1, 2);
Then I can make the axes top or bottom current by issuing a command like this:
subplot(top);
This also works:
axes(top);
But the two types of handles cannot be intermixed: axes(..) and subplot(..) work on axes handles, while figure(..) works on figure handles.
While others have provided you exactly what you've asked for (how to make an axes or figure the current one). My preferred way for dealing with this, is to explicitly specify the parent of your plot in the call to plot3.
If you look at the documentation, you will see that you can specify the parent axes as the first parameter to the function. If looks like you attempted to do this in your example, but you provided a handle to a figure rather than an axes.
f = figure()
ax = axes('Parent', f)
im = plot3(ax, X, Y, Z);
Alternately, I prefer the explicit solution
im = plot3(X, Y, Z, 'Parent', ax)
The nice thing about this explicit parameter/value specification of the parent is that it is accepted by all graphics objects. Functions like plot and plot3 are actually helper functions that wrap the functionality of line and allow for the convention of passing the parent first. The parameter/value approach is widely accepted regardless of whether you're working with a higher level function (plot, plot3, imshow) or the lower level objects (line, image, etc.)
The two benefits here are that you remove the overhead of MATLAB trying to figure out where to put your plot and also, it prevents MATLAB from having to change which figure is currently displayed, forcing a re-rendering which is one of MATLAB's slowest tasks.
give handle name to figure, give you a little example
f1 = figure;
imshow(image1);
f2 = figure;
imshow(image2);
% edit image 1
figure(f1);
text(2,3,'done');
How do I obtain all the axes handles in a figure handle?
Given the figure handle hf, I found that get(hf, 'children') may return the handles of all axes. However, the Matlab Help suggests that it may return more than just the axes handles:
Children of the figure. A vector containing the handles of all axes, user-interface objects displayed within the figure. You can change the order of the handles and thereby change the stacking of the objects on the display.
Is there any way to obtain only the axes handle in the figure handle? Or how do I know if the handle returned by get(hf, 'children') is an axe handle?
Thanks!
Use FINDALL:
allAxesInFigure = findall(figureHandle,'type','axes');
If you want to get all axes handles anywhere in Matlab, you could do the following:
allAxes = findall(0,'type','axes');
EDIT
To answer the second part of your question: You can test for whether a list of handles are axes by getting the handles type property:
isAxes = strcmp('axes',get(listOfHandles,'type'));
isAxes will be true for every handle that is of type axes.
EDIT2
To select only axes handles that are not legends, you need to cleanup the list of axes (ax handles by removing all handles whose tag is not 'legend' or 'Colorbar':
axNoLegendsOrColorbars= ax(~ismember(get(ax,'Tag'),{'legend','Colobar'}))
Jonas' solution didn't work for me, because there were some handles referring to legends. Surprisingly, legends seem to be implemented as axes, at least in Matlab 2010a.
Here is a solution if you only want the axes, not any legends or other stuff.
axesHandles = get(fig, 'Children');
classHandles = handle(axesHandles);
count = length(axesHandles);
isNotInstanceOfSubtype = false(1, count);
for i = 1:count
isNotInstanceOfSubtype(i) = strcmp(class(classHandles(i)), 'axes') == 1;
end
axesHandles = axesHandles(isNotInstanceOfSubtype);
The script works by sorting out handles which reveal to be of a sub-type of type axes, for example scribe.legend.
A warning for those trying to improve the above code snippet: using something like
classHandles = cellfun(#(x) handle(x), axesHandles)
might not work as intended:
??? Error using ==> cellfun
scribe.legend type is not currently implemented.
"Jonas" and "tm1" have answers that work for some. However, as tm1 pointed the issue, there are several items inside type 'axes'.
To exactly refer to the legend or axes itself (there may exist other items), you need to differentiate them, using their characteristic properties.
In my example, I opened "property editor" and looked for differing properties for axes and legend (since they both belong to "type, axes"). I was trying to copy my axes and its legend:
copied_axes = findobj(temp_fig,'type','axes','Tag','');
copied_legend = findobj(temp_fig,'type','axes','Tag','legend');
Instead of 'Tag' property, I also could use an other property from the "Property Inspector". The thing is, they must differ. Most of their properties are the same.
The solution by #tm1 is excellent. Mine is a little less complicated (if you're ok with functional programming):
% initialize `fig` somehow, i.e., "fig=gcf()" for the current figure or
% "fig=get(0,'children')" for all open figures; can be vector or scalar.
ax = findall(fig, 'type', 'axes');
ax = ax(arrayfun(#(i) strcmp(class(handle(i)), 'axes'), ax));
ax will contain only plot axes. This works because the class of a legend or colorbar object is different from axes.
Edit #Jonas points out a potential improvement to filter the results of findall, because at least legends and colorbars seem to have non-empty Tag properties: replace the last line in the above code snippet with
ax = ax(strcmp('', get(ax, 'Tag')))
Both these techniques are kludgy and may break in the future (a comparison against ggplot2 or Bokeh might be interesting).