Re: Compatible plotyy and colorbar (or Confusion about Position, OuterPosition and ActivePositionProperty)

[David Bateman]

Ben Abbott wrote:
> David,
>
> I see a problem that appears to might be related to jwe's swtich to 
> column vectors for handles.
>
> For plotyy please try the demo below. It is the same as the one in 
> plotyy with "subplot(221)" added as the first line.
>
> %!demo
> %! subplot(211)
> %! x = 0:0.1:2*pi;
> %! y1 = sin (x);
> %! y2 = exp (x - 1);
> %! ax = plotyy (x, y1, x - 1, y2, @plot, @semilogy);
> %! xlabel ("X");
> %! ylabel (ax(1), "Axis 1");
> %! ylabel (ax(2), "Axis 2");
>
> Using jwe's archive I get
>
> error: get: invalid handle (= 3.42134e+180)
> error: called from:
> error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/octave-3.1.51/scripts/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m 
> at line 1314, column 9
> error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/octave-3.1.51/scripts/plot/__go_draw_axes__.m 
> at line 271, column 8
> error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/octave-3.1.51/scripts/plot/__go_draw_figure__.m 
> at line 59, column 8
> error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/octave-3.1.51/scripts/plot/gnuplot_drawnow.m 
> at line 68, column 5
>
> The problems do not end there
>
> octave:6> clf
> error: delete: invalid graphics object (= -16.9272)
> error: called from:
> error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/octave-3.1.51/scripts/miscellaneous/delete.m 
> at line 40, column 1
> error:   
> /Users/bpabbott/Development/mercurial/octave-3.1.51/scripts/plot/clf.m 
> at line 37, column 9
>
> Notice this second error references a different handle.
>
> I also notice that the xlabe("X") command changes the orientation of the 
> children for the axis from a column vector to a row vector. For the row 
> vector the second element is invalid.
>
> btw, my response to this is rather quick because I was coincidentally 
> working on plotyy as well. My effort was to get it to work with subplot.
>
> Ben

Ok, I'm going to have little time to look at this today, but will try 
later if someone else doesn't get there first....

D.


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