Plotyy and giving each line its own color

Is this possible? I have two curves plotting on the secondary axis and two on the primary. I can get each axis to graph in separate colors but I also want to have differentiation within a plotting axis.

Answer 1

[Iain]

It is possible. It might not be that good of an idea if it makes it hard to identify which line goes with which axis (using subplot & linkaxes is probably a better idea).

What you need to do, is get the line object for the curve you want to do something to, and tell it to set it's properties....

 [axishandles curve1handle curve2handle] = plotyy(....);
 get(curve1handle) % This will give you a list of properties you can change...
 set(curve1handle,'property','new setting')

[matlabuser12]

well i am hoping to have two labels on each axis since the label color seems to correspond with the line color.

[matlabuser12]

so you have designated a primary and secondary axis with curve1handle and curve2handle respectively. but this will affect all curves tied to that axis. my current code looks similar:

[graph, p1,p2] = plotyy(..)

and I can only adjust colors for ALL p1 curves or ALL p2 curves, not individual curves plotting on p1.