Remove common factor from axis

Hey, I'm trying to remove the common factor from the axis of a plot.

This is what i'm doing. (its a custom color bar)

cX = [1 2];
cY = repmat(linspace(1,8e6,256),2,1).';

h.figure = figure;
h.panel = uipanel('Parent',h.figure);
h.axes = axes('Parent',h.panel);
h.surf = surf('Parent',h.axes,'XData',cX ,'YData',cY,'ZData',cY,'CData',cY);

set(h.surf,'Facecolor','interp','Edgecolor','none')

set(h.axes,'View',[90 90]...
    ,'XTick',[],'XTickLabel',[]...
    ,'ZTick',[],'ZTickLabel',[]...
    ,'YTick',(1:8)*1e6,'YTickLabel',{'1M','2M','3M','4M','5M','6M','7M','8M'}...
    ,'YLim',[min(cY(:)) max(cY(:))])

Now the final plot has

1M 2M ... 8M    1x10^6

along the axis

I would like the axis to just be

1M 2M ... 8M

without the common factor of 1x10^6

Can anyone help me achieve this.

[Jan]

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Answer 1

[Kelly Kearney]

Change the renderer from OpenGL to zbuffer.

 set(gcf, 'renderer', 'zbuffer');

Why this fixes the problem, I really have no idea. But I encounter it a lot when I add dateticks to my axes. Not sure if it's intended behavior or a bug, but most renderers eliminate the factor when manual tick labels are added; OpenGL does not (or at least doesn't always).

Answer 2

[Pierce Brady]

Problem half sorted.

    cX = [1 2]; 
    cY = repmat(linspace(1,8,256),2,1).';
    cZ = repmat(linspace(1,8e6,256),2,1).';

    h.figure = figure; 
    h.panel = uipanel('Parent',h.figure); 
    h.axes = axes('Parent',h.panel); 
      h.surf = surf('Parent',h.axes,'XData',cX,'YData',cY,'ZData',cZ,'CData',cZ);

    set(h.surf,'Facecolor','interp','Edgecolor','none')

    set(h.axes,'View',[90 90]... ,'XTick',[],'XTickLabel',[]... 
    ,'ZTick',[],'ZTickLabel',[]...   
    ,'YTick',(1:8),'YTickLabel',...   {'1M','2M','3M','4M','5M','6M','7M','8M'}... 
  ,'YLim',[min(cY(:)) max(cY(:))])

Doing this i avoid the common factor, but i'd still like to know how to remove the 1x10^6 without changing the magnitude of the data