[Sea-mat] multiple colormap/colorbars?

[Carlos Moffat]

Ooops.

Make step 2)

h=findobj('tag','TMW_COLORBAR')

Cheers,
Carlos

Carlos Moffat wrote:
> Hi Lynn,
> 
> I'm afraid I only have a partial solution for you, but it might take you 
> in the right direction:
> 
> Say you have a contour plot/subplot and you've done
> 
> 1a) H=colorbar (you'll have to have a different handle for each subplot)
> 
> Then you do
> 
> 1b) h=get(H,'children')
> 
> or alternatively (in matlab 7)
> 
> 2) h=findobj('tag','TMW_colorbar') this would give you the same result 
> as 1.
> 
> 3) once you have access to h, you can change the limits of your colorbar 
> by playing with the 'cdata' property. If you used the default length 
> colormap, that would be 64x1 (make sure to use a nx1 vector, not 1xn) 
> series of numbers. If you change that to, say:
> 
> set(h,'Cdata',1:34)
> 
> you've done what you want.
> 
> Although! it is only a partial solution in that you still have to figure 
> out how to translate your real units to "cdata" units, but should be too 
> much of a problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carlos
> 
> Lynn Yarmey wrote:
> 
>  >
>  > hello everyone,
>  >
>  > i am hoping someone can help me with the following:
>  >
>  > i am using different colormaps for different subplots in a figure.  
> since
>  > the colormap is attached to the figure properties as opposed to the axis
>  > properties, the colormaps are concatenated and i am pulling out the 
> colors
>  > for each subplot from the larger colormap with 'CLim'.
>  >
>  > however, when i add the colorbars to each subplot, the bar shows the
>  > entire range of the concatenated colormap.   i have tried changing the
>  > 'YLim' properties of the axis, but this changes the Y axis of my plot
>  > rather than of the colorbar.    is there a way to call out the axis 
> of the
>  > colorbar itself, or a better way to get the colorbar to only display the
>  > colors associated with that map?
>  >
>  > any help is appreciated!
>  > lynn
>  >
>  >
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>  > Integrative Oceanography Division - 0209
>  > Scripps Institution of Oceanography
>  > University of California, San Diego
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