Save GUI axes with legend to jpg

 My code is able to save the axes1 plot but legend is missing on the saved file. Any help to get legend in the saved image? Any other method appreciated. I do not want to use export_fig. Using Matlab 2014a.

[filename,pathname] = uiputfile('*.jpg;*.png;*.tif','Save as');
  if pathname == 0 %if the user pressed cancelled, then we exit this callback
      return
  end
  haxes=handles.axes1;
  ftmp = figure('visible','off');
  new_axes = copyobj(haxes, ftmp);
  set(new_axes,'Units','normalized','Position',[0.1 0.1 0.8 0.8]);
  saveas(ftmp, fullfile(pathname,filename));
  delete(ftmp);

Answer 1

[Philip Caplan]

This is expected behavior because the axes object does not save an associated legend. You will need to make a separate call to "copyobj" on a legend to copy a legend to your new figure. The following code snippet illustrates this (toggle the "copyLegend" variable to determine whether the legend is copied):

close all;

copyLegend = true;

plot(1:10);
hleg = legend('myplot');
hax1 = gca;

ftmp = figure;
new_axes = copyobj(hax1,ftmp);

if copyLegend
    copyobj(hleg,ftmp);
end

A legend will only appear on Figure 2 if "copyLegend" is set to true.