Matlab 2014b: Copying just the legend from existing figure into subplot
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Hi there,
I'm looking for how to get the legend from an existing saved figure and load it as the legend in a figure of subplots.
In 2013 I used to be able to do:
h1 = hgload('file.fig');
leg_ax = findobj(h1,'type','axes','Tag','legend','-not','Tag','Colorbar');
s6 = subplot(2,3,3);
copyobj(leg_ax,get(s6,'Parent'));
Thanks, Ashley
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Matt J
on 19 Nov 2014
Edited: Matt J
on 19 Nov 2014
One way is to save and reuse just the legend object itself, e.g.,
plot(1:5,2:6,1:5,0:4);
hleg=legend('First Line', 'Second Line');
save tst hleg
clear hleg
load tst hleg
figure;
s6 = subplot(2,3,3);
plot(10:10:50,(2:6).^2,10:10:50,(0:4).^2);
legend(hleg.String{:})
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Matt J
on 19 Nov 2014
h1=hgload(...)
hleg=findobj(h1,'Type','Legend');
s6 = subplot(2,3,3);
legend(hleg.String{:});
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 19 Nov 2014
h1 = hgload('file.fig');
leg_ax = findobj(h1,'type','axes','Tag','legend','-not','Tag','Colorbar');
figure
s6 = subplot(2,3,3);
copyobj(leg_ax,get(s6,'Parent'));
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