How can I make sure that cbarf (colorbar) will not overlap on second y-axis label?

% Create a data sets
data = rescale(peaks,0,600);
data1 = rescale(peaks,0,700);

newTickVals = [3 25 300 350 450];
limits=[newTickVals(1) newTickVals(end)];

x=1:1:49;z=ones(size(x));

f1=figure('Position', [0 400 1500 500]);
t1=tiledlayout(1,2);

% Tile 1
nexttile
contourf(data,newTickVals,"ShowText","on")
C=colormap('parula');
colormap(flipud(C))
clim(limits)
colororder({'r'})
yyaxis right
plot(x,z,'red',LineWidth=2)
ylabel('\bf Z values','Color','r','FontSize',18)


% Tile 2
nexttile
contourf(data1,newTickVals,"ShowText","on")
C1=colormap('parula');
colormap(flipud(C1))
h2=cbarf(data1,newTickVals);

Warning: Unable to set 'Position', 'InnerPosition', 'OuterPosition', or 'PositionConstraint' for objects in a TiledChartLayout

cbarf;
clim(limits)
cbarf;
colororder({'r'})
yyaxis right
plot(x,z,'red',LineWidth=2)
    ylabel('\bf Z values','Color','r','FontSize',18)

How can I make sure that cbarf (colorbar) will not overlap on second y-axis label?

Answer 1

[Voss]

Like the warning says, you cannot manually set the position of something controlled by a TiledChartLayout.

However, you can avoid using tiledlayout and instead create the axes explicitly and then move them and the colorbar wherever you want.

For example:

% Create a data sets
data = rescale(peaks,0,600);
data1 = rescale(peaks,0,700);

newTickVals = [3 25 300 350 450];
limits=[newTickVals(1) newTickVals(end)];

x=1:1:49;z=ones(size(x));

f1=figure('Position', [0 400 1500 500]);

% Tile 1
axes( ...
    'Parent',f1, ...
    'Units','normalized', ...
    'Position',[0.05 0.05 0.35 0.9]);

contourf(data,newTickVals,"ShowText","on")
C=colormap('parula');
colormap(flipud(C))
clim(limits)
colororder({'r'})
yyaxis right
plot(x,z,'red',LineWidth=2)
ylabel('\bf Z values','Color','r','FontSize',18)

% Tile 2
axes( ...
    'Parent',f1, ...
    'Units','normalized', ...
    'Position',[0.5 0.05 0.38 0.9]) % width after adding cbarf becomes 0.35

contourf(data1,newTickVals,"ShowText","on")
C1=colormap('parula');
colormap(flipud(C1))
h2=cbarf(data1,newTickVals);

set(h2,'Position',[0.9 0.1 0.02 0.8])

clim(limits)
colororder({'r'})
yyaxis right
plot(x,z,'red',LineWidth=2)
ylabel('\bf Z values','Color','r','FontSize',18)

[Ankitkumar Patel]

It is very nice solution but I also see that right plot size decrease a bit due to this shifting.

[Voss]

You're right. The cbarf makes the right axes a bit narrower. I've changed the answer so that now both axes end up with the same width.