How do I reformat the colorbar values from scientific notation to standard notation?

I am trying to figure out how to edit the format of the labels on the colorbar. From the sample code:

clear all; close all; clc;
A = rand(100,100)./(1e2);
figure; imagesc(A); colormap jet; colorbar;

The figure's colorbar labels are 1 through 9 with a "x 10^-3" at the top. How do I format the labels such that they show .001, .002, ....., .009 ? I need this to be dynamic, i.e. the range may change w/ the data I am displaying, so I cannot hardcode in tick labels.

Any thoughts? Thank you in advance! Kristin

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

There is no way to turn that off without setting the tick labels.

Each time you set a new data range, you can

set(Colormap_axis, 'YTickLabel', cellstr(str2num(reshape(get(Colormap_axis, 'YTick'),[],1),'%0.3f')) )

(adjust the %0.3f as appropriate

[Kristin Busa]

Thanks, Walter. For future users, I think the str2num should instead be num2str, but with this adjustment it seems to work. Thanks!

[Walter Roberson]

Sorry yes, num2str().