copy legend information - 2014b

Hi, I want to copy few figures into a new figure with subplots. Hence as the initial step i intend to copy axes and legend information. In 2014b legend information saved as a object type.

% existing figure
 h = surf(peaks);
colormap hsv
 legend('temperature')
% new figure
fig = figure;
ax = axes;
new_handle = copyobj(h,ax);
colormap(fig,hsv)
view(ax,3)
grid(ax,'on')

How can I import the legend data and position to the new figure in matlab 2014b.

Answer 1

[Vivek Jadye]

It is quite easy to copy axes and corresponding legend to a new figure. All you have to do is to use copyobj function as follows.

If you want to copy a specific axes and corresponding legend to a new figure it could be done this way

 % existing figure
h = surf(peaks);
colormap hsv 
leg = legend('temperature'); %Store legend object for copying
ax = findobj(gcf,'type','axes'); %Retrieve the axes to be copied
% new figure
fig = figure;
copyobj([leg,ax],fig);
colormap(fig,hsv);

If you intend to copy every figure child to a new figure you can simply do the following.

 % existing figure 
 h = surf(peaks);
colormap hsv 
legend('temperature'); 
oldfig = gcf;
% new figure
fig = figure;
copyobj(oldfig.Children,fig);
colormap(fig,hsv);

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

[Rashmil Dahanayake]

Hi, once the original figure is generated i don't have access to the variable "leg"-ie legend. In that case how would I specifically make a query to access legend properties and export that to a new figure.

[Keith Rogers]

Looks like you can get the legend handle for a particular axes object with syntax like "legh = legend(ax)"

You can also do legend(ax,'show') or legend(ax,'hide')

[Phuc Thien NGUYEN]

Great! It works perfectly. Thank you, Keith Rogers.