I'm trying to add a title to my surface plot, but attempting to add any descriptive text to the plot results in the above error. I can plot the data just fine, but attempting to add the title throws the error. I've listed my code below and can't figure out why a simple text title causes problems. I'd appreciate any ideas. Thanks!
function LWMMSweepPlots(excel,cpb,rpb)
data=xlsread(excel);
[r,c]=size(data);
iterations=round(c./cpb);
for i=1:iterations;
power=data(1:rpb,cpb*(i-1)+1:cpb*(i-1)+cpb);
xone=data(rpb*4-3:rpb*4-3+(rpb-1),cpb*(i-1)+1:cpb*(i-1)+cpb);
yone=data(rpb*5-2:rpb*5-2+(rpb-1),cpb*(i-1)+1:cpb*(i-1)+cpb);
xtwo=data(rpb+2,cpb*(i-1)+1);
ytwo=data(rpb*2+3,cpb*(i-1)+1);
xtn=num2str(xtwo);ytn=num2str(ytwo);
mytitle=strcat('X2,Y2 Coordinates:',xtn,',',ytn);
figure;surf(xone,yone,power,title(mytitle))
end
end
That's not how you add a title. If you want to add a title you need to use title separately. They way that you are doing it, MATLAB is treating the output of title as the CData of the surface.
figure
surf(xone, yone, power)
title(mytitle)
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This is a fairly entry-level question but I could not find the answer to it here on SO or on Mathworks help.
I want to add a color bar to an image I am loading and then save the image along with the created color bar.
The result I am looking for is like figure 1 on this page except that there is an image instead of the plot and the color bar shows the range of intensities in the image.
The page made me think that running
colorbar(<trarget matrix>);
Would do the trick but that throws an error when I try to apply it to an image.
So my question is, how do I make a color bar for my image and once made what would be a good way to concatenate the two for saving.
I am loading the image using the following snippet
IMGpath = 'barbaraSmall.png';
im = imread(IMGpath, 'png');
%
%colorbar(im); >>Throws an error
imshow(im);
imwrite(im, 'barabara_withMAP.png', 'png');
The syntax that you're using is colorbar(target). According to the documentation,
target is:
"Target for the colorbar, specified as an Axes object, a PolarAxes object, or a graphics object that has a ColorbarVisible property".
You're inputting an image matrix (im) as target which is none of the above mentioned objects. You can simply just enter:
colorbar;
or if you want to give an axes' handle then:
colorbar(gca);
You can save the result using saveas.
saveas(gca, 'barabara_withMAP.png')
In attached image the output looks boring to me. Is it possible to have the subplots enclosed in a border?
Note: This question is not specific to publishing only but in general, say for exported images also.
Thanks
Postscript: I actually need this:
You can add a box like in here
making your code:
close all
figure()
padd=0.04
axes('Position',[padd padd 1-padd*2 1-padd*2],'xtick',[],'ytick',[],'box','on','handlevisibility','off')
subplot(1,2,1)
imagesc(magic(2))
subplot(1,2,2)
imagesc(magic(3))
This yields
And you can change the padd to be bigger or smaller
I obtained this just by plotting lines of different thickness 1.
The text was added with Inkscape though.
If I understand correctly what you want to do, you can obtain borders inside a figure using uipanels http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uipanel.html like this:
Code is:
u=uipanel('Title','MainPanel')
u1=uipanel('Parent',u,'BorderType','line','HighlightColor','k','Title','Subpanel 1','Position',[0,0,0.5,1])
u2=uipanel('Parent',u,'BorderType','line','HighlightColor','k','Title','Subpanel 2','Position',[0.5,0,0.5,1])
axes1=axes('Parent',u1)
imagesc(magic(2))
axes2=axes('Parent',u2)
imagesc(magic(3))
Of course you can change border widths, colors, titles and such
Hi everyone and thanks in advance for all your help.
I'm currently working on a UI in matlab that includes 4 differents axes to show various info. Basicly, I have MRI data (so 3D data) that I want to show. I use 1 axe to show 3 perpendicular plane that split the data at its center (axeMain), and 3 other axes that shows the planes individually (axeX,axeY and axeZ). I have a main axe on wich I want to make rotations possible (only on the main axis system) and I want to be able to select coordinate on the 3 other axe (those with 1 plane only). I also unable translations but that is out of scope for my problem.
So basicly, I have no problem selecting my coordinates (using the buttondownfcn on my planes) on all of the 3 axes and I also have no problem using rotate3D on the mainAxe. HOWEVER, if I try to have both to work at the same time, the buttondownfcn doesn't work anymore. I don't understand why it's doing this (I have some ideas but that's about it) and I have no idea how to work around it. Basicly my code for those functions are like this :
rotate3d(handles.axisMain);
%some other code, setting up other UI stuff
%allow selection on the 3 static plains.
set([handles.axeX,handles.axeY,handles.axeZ], 'buttondownfcn', #getCoord);
So my question is basicly : why wont those 2 functions don't work together and how to work around that problem, ideally with minimal code change?
Thanks.
EDIT : this is a print screen of my current interface. I want to be able to select coordinate using ONLY on the 3 last axes (containing only 1 plane in each of them). I also want to be able to rotate images ONLY on the first axe (the one with 3 planes). Hope this clarify.
I would also like to note this : following my tests, I found that the mouse click would not raise at all if the rotate3D is activated. The problem is not in the logic I use to get the coordinates itself, but in the click event not being fired.
Also, I am aware that the event is not on the surface that I try to print. The actual code is like this :
set(h, 'buttondownfcn', #getCoord);
set(h,'HitTest','on');
where h is the handle of a surface and each surfaces are processed this way.
I have found the exact solution!
Exploring the code for rotate3d(hAxe,'on') , i have found that they key line is getuimode(hFig,'Exploration.Rotate3d') wich returns uitools.uimode that contains ButtonDownFilter and ModeStateData methods.
Finally i have solved the problem in the following way:
rotate3d(hAxe,'on')
uiMode = getuimode(hFig,'Exploration.Rotate3d');
uiMode.ButtonDownFilter = #mycallback;
where:
hAxe is the handle to the axes object
hFig is the handle to the figure object
#mycallback is the callback that lets buttondownfcn and rotate3d works together as in the example of Matlab's help
So, you have to tag the object that you want to not be ignored:
set(hAxe,'tag','DoNotIgnore')
And write the callback:
function [flag] = mycallback(obj,event_obj)
% If the tag of the object is 'DoNotIgnore', then return true
objTag = obj.Tag;
if strcmpi(objTag,'DoNotIgnore')
flag = true;
else
flag = false;
end
maybe
set(handles.axisMain, 'buttondownfcn', #getCoord);
When we plot a bode/nichols locus, the name of workspace variable is used
tmp=ss(1,1,1,0);
nichols(tmp);
will use 'tmp' as label.
When using more complex data, matlab is using 'untitled1','untitled2',...
tmp={ss(1,1,1,0) , ss(1.2,1,1,0)};
nichols(tmp{:});
How can I change this label programmatically?
Ideally, I'd like a solution working with Matlab 6.5.1, but I'm also interested in solutions restricted to newer versions.
You can modify the labels programmatically via their graphics handles. It looks like the values you want to change are the DisplayName property of some of the children of the current axis. So in your first example, I can change the display name like this:
ch = get(gca,'Children');
set(ch(1),'DisplayName','Fred');
In general, I'm not sure how to predict which children of the current axis are the ones you need to change. For the second example you give, the two curves appear to be the second and third children when I run your code.
As the help document of Matlab saying, we can use gplot in such a form as
gplot(A,Coordinates,LineSpec)
But when I try to modify the linewidth of the line and use a code like
gplot(A,Coordinates,'linewidth',2)
an error occurred and the error information saying that Error using gplot:
Too many input arguments.
I was wondering if their is anything wrong with my code.
Building on the answer of PearsonArtPhoto, the lines can be modified if they are explicitly found using findall(gcf,'type','line').
This is a working example:
k = 1:30;
[B,XY] = bucky;
gplot(B(k,k),XY(k,:),'-*')
set(findall(gcf,'type','line'),'LineWidth',5)
axis square
which produces the following figure
You could always do it manually. Try doing this right after plotting your figure.
set(gco,'LineWidth',2)