Misalignment plot with several axes

Dear all,

I have the following code that gives me a group of subplots.

for k = 1:N

CellSELpercentil{k} = eval(string(SELtimepercentil(k)));

M=CellSELpercentil{k};

ax1=axes;

subplot(2,3,k,ax1);

imagesc(ax1,km2deg(Xv),km2deg(Yv),M);

h=colorbar(ax1,'southoutside');

ylabel(h,'Sound Exposure Level (dB)');

set(gca,'YDir','normal');

clear title

title(strcat('SEL\_', listofpercentis(k)));

xlabel('LONGITUDE');

ylabel('LATITUDE');

axis tight;

clear title

ax2=axes;

subplot(2,3,k,ax2);

contourf(ax2,km2deg(lon_km),km2deg(lat_km),elevation', [-5 -5],'w','facecolor','w');

ax3=axes;

subplot(2,3,k,ax3);

c2=contourf(ax3,km2deg(lon_km),km2deg(lat_km),elevation', [0 0],'facecolor',[0.5 0.5 0.5]);

linkaxes([ax1,ax2,ax3]);

ax2.Visible = 'off';

ax2.XTick = [];

ax2.YTick = [];

ax3.Visible = 'off';

ax3.XTick = [];

ax3.YTick = [];

ax2.Visible = 'on';

ax2.Visible = 'off';

ax3.Visible = 'on';

ax3.Visible = 'off';

axes(ax1); axis equal;

axes(ax2); axis equal;

axes(ax3); axis equal;

hold on;

ax1.XGrid = 'on';

ax1.YGrid = 'on';

ax1.GridColor = [1, 1, 1]; % [R, G, B]

hold on; contourf(km2deg(lon_km),km2deg(lat_km),elevation', [-50 -50],'w','ShowText','on','facecolor','none'); %linha dos 50m

hold on; contourf(km2deg(lon_km),km2deg(lat_km),elevation', [-100 -100],'w','ShowText','on','facecolor','none'); %linha dos 100m

hold on; contourf(km2deg(lon_km),km2deg(lat_km),elevation', [-250 -250],'w','ShowText','on','facecolor','none'); %linha dos 250m

hold on; contourf(km2deg(lon_km),km2deg(lat_km),elevation', [-1000 -1000],'w','ShowText','on','facecolor','none'); %linha dos 1000m

portugal=text(deg2km(-8.6),deg2km(38.3),'Portugal','FontSize',20); %Portugal Setubal

set(portugal,'Rotation',90);

setubal=text(deg2km(-9.0),deg2km(38.55),'Setubal','FontSize',14); %Portugal Sines

caxis(ax1,[120 180]);

hold off

end

set(gcf,'WindowState','maximized')

However everything works fine, but when I had the colorbar (line 8) the axis kind of get displaced and I get the following plots.

Do you have any idea of how to get it working properly?

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

[Simon Chan]

When you create a colorbar, the figure region is shifted upwards and hence it automatically adjust the positions of ax1.

In order to align the other axis to ax1, add these two lines somewhere after defining ax2 and ax3

ax2.Position = ax1.Position;
ax3.Position = ax1.Position;

[Ricardo Duarte]

Thank you, it solves the problem partially...

When I maximize the window the alignment/or the scale do not follow that maximization.

What should I do now??

[Simon Chan]

In the lower part of your code, try to add the axis name to those lines using contourf (4 lines) and text (2 lines).

[Ricardo Duarte]

Still not working!

I think that the problem is the following line: set(gcf,'WindowState','maximized'); that maximize the window. It only maximize the ax1 and not the rest...

Thank you.

[Ricardo Duarte]

solved!

somehow when I do "set(gcf,'WindowState','maximized')" matlab kind of need time to adapt plot to the maximized window. I add a "pause(1)" and then I can get the job done.

Thank you!

[Voss]

@Ricardo Duarte: See if using drawnow() in place of pause(1) still works. If it does, then you don't have to wait that extra second.