How do I reset axis ticks to normal after I modify them?

Suppose I have turned on datetick for a specific axis. Is there a way to turn off / reset the axis ticks to normal mode with 'set' commands?

Answer 1

[Patrick Kalita]

You want to tell the axes to place the ticks wherever it thinks is best via the XTickMode property. You also want to tell the axes to decide automatically how to label those ticks using the XTickLabelMode property.

Here's the statement to do it:

set(gca, 'XTickMode', 'auto', 'XTickLabelMode', 'auto')

You can replace the call to gca with the axes handle if you have it. Of course you can set the YTickMode, ZTickMode, ect. properties if you applied datetick to the y- or z-axis.

[Martijn Steenwijk]

This solves indeed the problem. Thanks for your reply!

Answer 2

[Ivan van der Kroon]

You can use

set(gca,'XTickLabel',xdate)

where xdate is your x-axis data. With datetick you're just changing the labels, but not the ticks themselves. Hope it helps!

[Oleg Komarov]

set(gca,'xtickl',get(gca,'xtick'))

Answer 3

[Martijn Steenwijk]

Both solutions do not work. After XData first contained datenum output, I insert new data in the order of [0,100]. What I want is to show the related ticks, but currently none of the ticks is visible.

[Oleg Komarov]

Solutions don't work says nothing about your problem (since both solutions do work if applied coherently) and it's not clear what's your problem.

To see what's the difference with your problem post the formatted code (editing your answer), otherwise no clue.