specifing a colorbar parent/figure

How are you supposed to set the figure to which a colorbar is associated? At the moment, when I introduce a colorbar it automatically assigns itself to another figure without any mention of that figure.

i.e. associate colorbar with "plot" figure

imshow(data,'Parent',plot);
colormap(plot, jet)
colorbar
caxis(plot,[0 max_I])

Many thanks,

[William]

still stuck on this, please advise

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

After R2014b:

imshow(data, 'Parent', hPlot);
colormap(hPlot, jet(256));
colorbar(hPlot);

R2014a and earlier:

axes(hPlot);
imshow(data);
colormap(jet(256));
colorbar;

Do NOT use plot as the handle to your axes. plot() is the name of a built in function and it is never a good idea to use the names of built-in functions for your variables.

[William]

thanks for the heads up