Thank you so much for your blog. I absolutely love it!
I have a question regarding a scatter plot and I was wondering if you would be able to help me. I’m trying to do a scatter plot with a text annotation on the background. My question is how I can make the text appear bellow the bubbles, as opposed to on top of them? Here’s my code. (I’ve used random data for simplicity here)

vy = randi(80,[100,1]); % random data
vx = randi(50000, [100,1]); % random data
c = rand([length(vy),3]); % random colors RGB
figure(‘Position’, [100 100 800 600], ‘Color’, ‘w’)
axes(‘Position’,[0.1 0.15 0.8 0.8],’XScale’,'log’, ‘Color’, ‘w’)
axis([200 100000 20 85]); % [xMin xMax yMin yMax]
ha = gca; % get current axes handle
set(ha, ‘FontSize’, 14, ‘Color’, ‘w’,…
‘XColor’, [0.5 0.5 0.5], ‘YColor’, [0.5 0.5 0.5])
set(ha, ‘XTick’, xTick)
set(ha,’XTickLabel’,{’400′;’1,000′;’2,000′;’4,000′;
’10,000′;’20,000′;’40,000′})
grid on
set(ha, ‘box’, ‘on’)
ht = text(‘Units’, ‘normalized’, ‘Position’,[0.5,
0.5],’String’,'Trial’, …
‘FontUnits’, ‘normalized’ , ‘FontSize’, 0.35 , …
‘HorizontalAlignment’, ‘center’, …
‘VerticalAlignment’, ‘middle’,…
‘Color’,[0.6 0.8 0.8]);
hold on
hp = scatter(vx(:),vy(:),50,c,’filled’); % scatter plot

I’ve tried using uistack, but it doesn’t work :(. This is what I’ve tried:

uistack(ht,’bottom’)
uistack(hp,’top’)

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you very much!!

Eric

I belive so – I saw this statement in the documentation for axes (http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/axes_props.html):

“multiple-line plots. For example:

set(gca,’LineStyleOrder’, ‘-*|:|o’)

sets LineStyleOrder to solid line with asterisk marker, dotted line, and hollow circle marker. The default is (-), which specifies a solid line for all data plotted. Alternatively, you can create a cell array of character strings to define the line styles:

set(gca,’LineStyleOrder’,{‘-*’,':’,'o’})

MATLAB supports four line styles, which you can specify any number of times in any order. MATLAB cycles through the line styles only after using all colors defined by the ColorOrder property. For example, the first eight lines plotted use the different colors defined by ColorOrder with the first line style. MATLAB then cycles through the colors again, using the second line style specified, and so on.”

I tried setting linestyleorder with only marker string values and it worked for me.

–Loren

%Plot settings
h = get(gca,'Children');

prop( 1) = {'Marker'};
val(1,1) = {'o'};
val(2,1) = {'^'};
val(3,1) = {'s'};
val(4,1) = {'v'};

prop( 2) = {'LineWidth'};
val(1,2) = {1.5};
val(2,2) = {1.5};
val(3,2) = {1.5};
val(4,2) = {1.5};

set(h,prop,val)

%Title settings
a = axis;
set(get(gca,'Title'),'Position',[(a(2)-a(1))/2 (a(4)-a(3))*.99])
set(get(gca,'Title'),'VerticalAlignment','Top')

 
My problem is now related with the position of the tile. It is almost attached to the upper line of the graph ‘box’. How can I insert, say, a space of 5px?

Many thanks indeed!

set(0,'DefaultAxesColorOrder',[0 0 0],...
      'DefaultAxesLineStyleOrder','-|--|:|-.')
Z = peaks; plot(1:49,Z(4:7,:))

 
with:

set(0,'DefaultAxesColorOrder',[1 0 0; 1 1 0; 0 1 0; 0 1 1],...
      'DefaultAxesLineStyleOrder','-|--|:|-.')
Z = peaks; plot(1:49,Z(4:7,:))

 
So in my article, whatever it will be printed (B&W or color), it would be possible to differentiate the different plot!
Many thanks indeed!

Thanks for solving the mystery and for filing the bug report.

–loren

PS: I did find why “yesterday” it used to work… obviouly using a different version of the same function that treated the ‘none’ differently (if ‘none’, no plot!)
regards,
Ruello

I guess so – never knew that. You should contact support and file a bug report.

–loren

plot(x,y,’linestyle’,'none')

While

plot(x,y,'-')

works fine???

Sorry if I insist, but I am trying to understand why my code seemed to work fine yesterday with plot(x,y,’none’) and today it decided to stop… I know there must have been something else, but I could not find it…

The acceptable inputs for plot and set differ. See the doc for plot: http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/plot.html

and you will see you either need to supply an item as a linespec: http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/linespec.html

or use parameter/value pairs as in the set function.

So plot(x,y,’linestyle’,'none’) would be the way to go via plot.

–Loren