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Paul
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Re: Access ColorOrder at Figure level
Posted:
May 25, 2012 11:53 AM
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On May 24, 12:12 pm, "Steven_Lord" <sl...@mathworks.com> wrote:
> "Paul" <paul.domas...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> > On May 24, 10:08 am, "Steven_Lord" <sl...@mathworks.com> wrote:
> >>"Paul" <paul.domas...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> The help for ColorOrder says that one can set the ColorOrder at the
> >>> Figure level. I tried to access this as a Figure property through the
> >>> GUI, but no such property is listed. Am I wrongly interpreting the
> >>> help?
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> >> Are you referring to this documentation?
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> >>http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/axes_props.html#ColorOrder
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> >> I don't see any reference to the figure in that. Or this
> >> documentation that talks about setting the _default_ ColorOrder for
> >> a figure, which will affect all axes created in that figure after
> >> the default is set?
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> >>http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/creating_plots/bqsxy_a-1.html
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> >> Setting defaults for a property is a little different than setting
> >> the property itself. In particular, the object on which you call SET
> >> is different.
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> >>http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/creating_plots/f7-21465.html
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> > It's none of those pages. It's odd that neither of the 1st two pages
> > about ColorOrder links to the one I am referring to:
> >http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/creating_plots/bqsxy_a-1.html
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> Certain topics are covered in multiple places in the documentation. But if
> you compare URLs the second one I posted matches this one.
Huh. True dat. They're such long webpages, they might as well be
different pages.
> > But I found the answer by re-reading that page more carefully:
> > get(gcf,'DefaultAxesColorOrder')
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> Yes, that will change the default value for the ColorOrder property used by
> any axes that are later created in the figure whose handle was returned by
> that call to GCF. [Note that this will not affect existing axes unless they
> get cleared as per a call to PLOT or CLA or the like, which reset the
> ColorOrder property to the (new) default.]
Understood. Thanks for the clarification.
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