How to select specific figure and specific axes for plot?

Hi,

i have a code running where you can open a figure (here: animation.fig), which has been pre-created with guide.

this figure contains static-text and 2 axes.

How can i select in which figure and in which axes of this figure i want to draw my plot??

I've been searching for a lot of time, but can't get it working.

I tried of course

figure(animation); % open figure and set to active

ax = findobj(animation, 'Type', 'Axes'); % get all axes in this figure (works! Here: axes2 and axes3)

axes(handles.axes2); <-- doesn't work: "Unrecognized field name "axes2"

Please help :-)

Answer 1

[Heiko]

Hi Antoni,

thank you so much!!

What i think i have learned:

animation=openfig('animation.fig'); % not only just opening but defining an 'object' being the actual parent

NAxes=animation.Children; % here i learnend about correct use of children/ parent settings

a1=NAxes(1); % within NAxes() are all 'children' of the current parent figure. Might be static text, axes...

plot(YourData,'Parent',a1) % Plot/ write data in current parent and in children a1 as declared the line above

Heiko :)

Answer 2

[Antoni Garcia-Herreros]

Hello Heiko,

You can take a look here.

You could try something like this:

% Let's say your figure has been saves as a .fig file
animation=openfig('animation.fig');
NAxes=animation.Children;
a1=NAxes(1); % Chose your depending on where you want to plot your data (1 or 2)

hold(a1,'on') % If there is data already in the plot you may want to hold it
plot(YourData,'Parent',a1) % Plot data on ax1

I hope this helps!