Increase outer position width while keep inner position unchanged

How can I make a matlab figure wider so I can place legends (there're 11) outside drawing box so legends do not block plots? Specifically, make the right gray area wider and keep everything else unchanged.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I am not absolutely certain what the desired result is, however here is an illustration (although the online Run feature is not the best place to demonstrate it, since the plot areas are constricted, so experiment offline to get the best results) —

x = 1:0.1:10;
y = randn(size(x));

figure
plot(x,y)
grid
legend('y', 'Location','eastoutside')
title('Original')

figure
plot(x,y)
grid
legend('y', 'Location','eastoutside')
title('Repositioning Width')
% Fg = gcf;
% fpos = Fg.Position
% Fg.Position = fpos + [0 0 -50 0];
Ax = gca;
aipos = Ax.InnerPosition

aipos = 1×4

0.1125 0.1100 0.6706 0.8150

Ax.InnerPosition = aipos + [0 0 -0.1 0];
aopos = Ax.OuterPosition

aopos = 1×4

0.0394 0 0.5623 1.0000

Ax.OuterPosition = aopos + [0 0 0.3 0];

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[Frank Zhao]

Exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks.

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!

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