Resize axes in figure Matlab

I have a button in my Matlab GUI to open up an axes plot in a new figure, here is my code:

    fig=figure;
    set(fig, 'Position', [100, 100, 1049, 895]);
    h=handles.axes2;
    copyobj(h,fig); 
    set(gca,'units','pix') 

    set(gca,'units','norm')

However, the axes is quite small in the new figure:

But when I try to add this line at the bottom of the previous code:

        get(gca,{'Position',[100, 100, 1049, 895]}); % [left bottom right top]

nothing changes... I have tried changing the numbers as well but the axes does not get resized...

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Set the OuterPosition of the axes, not the figure:

set(h, 'Units', 'Normalized'); % First change to normalized units.
set(h, 'OuterPosition', [.1, .1, .85, .85]); % [xLeft, yBottom, width, height]

[VeraM]

thank you this worked :)

[Kribashnee Dorasamy]

Problems arise when there are two image/axes in a figure. Not only does that line change the size but also the locations. How can one rectify this?

[Image Analyst]

The first two elements, xLeft and yBottom, specify the location. What are your problems? Rectify what? Please supply simple code to illustrate the problems.

[Roy Ramirez]

didn't work for me. I put the axes widget inside of a Panel widget an now I can size it with GUIDE

Answer 2

[Adam]

Apart from the obvious point that you are calling ' get ', not ' set ', I've never used copyobj so am not really familiar with it, but you should really try to work with an explicit axes handle rather than gca which is somewhat transient. It may not be a problem here, but it can easily become a source of problems when your program gets more complicated.

[VeraM]

Thanks for your advice on using the axes handle instead of gca, I will see if I can get it to work that way. And yes that was a typo (my mistake!) I meant set(gca...)

[Adam]

You may want to play around with the

OuterPosition

property of the axes too. That is the onoe that includes all the space for the title, axes ticks, labels etc etc.

[VeraM]

Thanks using 'outerposition' worked!