This has bugged me for ages...How to stop MATLAB writing/drawing outside the plot area (I've tried past suggestions but no luck!!)

I have the plot attached. You can see on the right side text goes outside the box area and the scattered data at the top and bottom also does the same because of their size.

I simply want the text and part of the scatter points that are outside of the box to be blanked out.

I've tried the set(h,'Clipping','on') option with no luck, and I do not want to simply change my y and x ranges leaving blank space.

Any suggestions how I can do this???

Basic code:

contourf(x,y,z,40,'LineStyle','none')
hold on
h1 = scatter(X,Y,23,'K','Square','Clipping','on')
h2 = scatter(X,Y,20,Z,'Square')
h3 = contour(x,y,z,[13.4 13.6 13.7 14],'k','ShowText','on')

[Adam]

Obvious first question. Is that your actuall code? Because you missed a 'g' off the end of 'Clipping'

[Michael]

MATLAB still accepted it with no error. I noticed before but it made no difference adding the 'g'. I've edited the post to add the 'g'.

[Henry Giddens]

I dont know the answer to this (sorry), but clipping does not hide markers:

http://uk.mathworks.com/help/matlab/examples/clipping-in-plots-and-graphs.html

Hopefully someone can provide a solution, I am also interested to know if it can be done.

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

Workaround: you can hide it behind another axes object.

 f = figure;
 aH = axes;
 plot(rand(10,1))
 text(9,0.5,'Cut me pretty please');

 aHPos = aH.Position;
 widthDummy = 0.1;
 dummyPos = [aHPos(1)+aHPos(3), aHPos(2), widthDummy, aHPos(4)];
 dummyAH = axes('Position', dummyPos,'Color',f.Color, 'XColor',f.Color,...
                'YColor',  f.Color,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);

[Michael]

Ok this works, and I modified the code to do the same for all 4 axes sides:

leftAx = [0, 0, 0.13, 1];
rightAx = [0.905, 0, 0.13, 1];
bottAx = [0, 0, 1, 0.11];
topAx = [0, 0.924, 1, 1];

dummyAH1 = axes('Position', topAx,'Color',f.Color, 'XColor',f.Color,...
                'YColor', f.Color,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
dummyAH2 = axes('Position', bottAx,'Color',f.Color, 'XColor',f.Color,...
                'YColor', f.Color,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
dummyAH3 = axes('Position', leftAx,'Color',f.Color, 'XColor',f.Color,...
    'YColor', f.Color,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);
dummyAH4 = axes('Position', rightAx,'Color',f.Color, 'XColor',f.Color,...
    'YColor', f.Color,'XTick',[], 'YTick', []);

Now I have the problem of displaying the correct Axes ticks, colorbar, and labels...

[Michael]

Anyone know how I can overlay the axes ticks/colorbar/labels that I covered up by doing this?

[José-Luis]

http://se.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uistack.html

[Michael]

bravo! thanks Jose