Re: default properties for axis label objects

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 5, 2010, at 7:41 AM, Ben Abbott wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2010, at 3:42 AM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
>> I was recently asked about setting the default value of the "rotation"
>> property for y-axis labels to 0 instead of 90, so that all new plots
>> would have the y-axis label oriented the same as the x-axis label.
>> Currently, the y-axis label is always rotated 90 degrees
>> counterclockwise.
>> 
>> It seems there is no way to do this for Octave because each time an
>> axis object is created, new text objects are created for the x-, y-,
>> and z-axis labels and with all the factory default settings and there
>> is code in axes::properties::init in src/graphics.cc that explicitly sets the
>> rotation property for the y-axis label to 90.  So I see no way to set
>> defaults, at least in Octave.  Is there some way to accomplish this
>> task in Matlab?  If so, how?
>> 
>> jwe
> 
> I don't know how to do that either.
> 
> I would have thought that DefaultAxisCreateFcn could be modified to do the 
> job, but Matlab doesn't allow me to set the default createfcn for axis 
> objects ... which leaves me wondering how that property is even useful.
> 
> Ben

I had a typo in my first attempt. Using Matlab, this works for me.

        fcn = @(varargin) set (get (gca, 'ylabel'), 'rotation', 0, 
'horizontalalignment', 'right');
        set (0, 'defaultaxescreatefcn', fcn)

Ben