Re: Holding axis properties between plots

[Michael Goffioul]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Vodden John <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
>  > Is there a quick way to restore the previous axis state to a new
>  > graph, or to disable resetting the axis properties when plot is
>  called?
>  >
>  >I think that you may be looking for the hold command.  Specifically,
>  >you probably want to use "hold on".
>
>  Thanks for the help, but hold holds "the current data on the plot when
>  executing subsequent plotting commands." It is not the data that I want
>  to hold but instead general state of the graph, normally axis limits but
>  possibly labels and tic settings too.

% on first plot
h = plot(.....)
% do some axis configuration
set(gca, ...)
% change plot data
set(h, 'xdata', ..., 'ydata', ...)

Michael.