Can I have same plot colors between 2 different figures?

Hi,

I have 2 Figures. Each has a Axes area with 4 plots each.

When I do 'hold all' - Matlab assign colors to the plots automatically.

I want to have the two figures plot colors the same meaning - Line#1 in Axis#1 will have the same color as Line#1 in Axes#2....

Is it possible to do so without setting manually the colors to each line?

Is there a 'hold' sequence where this might work?

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Example

t=0:0.1:10
y11=cos(t)
y12=2*cos(t)
h1(1)=plot(t,y11)
hold on
h1(2)=plot(t,y12)
set(h1(1),'color','red')
set(h1(2),'color','green')

figure
y21=sin(t)
y22=2*sin(t)
h2(1)=plot(t,y21)
hold on
h2(2)=plot(t,y22)
set(h2(1),'color','red')
set(h2(2),'color','green')

[Nimrodb]

I know I can do that.

That is why I asked:

"Is it possible to do so without setting manually the colors to each line?"

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Can you post how did you get those four plots?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

You can also do:

set(h1,{'color'},{'red';'green'})

I don't know why you call this manually?

[Nimrodb]

I wrote, when writing 'hold all' - (and not 'hold on') Matlab select the colors automatically .

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Then What is the problem? Just use hold all, with the order of plotting you want. The colors are givens in the order

[Nimrodb]

My code is as such (If you have suggesting on changing it but getting the same result - I'm happy to hear it):

hold all

%%Plotting x plots:
for i = 1:size(Data(:,1),1)  
      h.Plots(i,1) = plot(Data(i,:),(TxArray+TxArray*0.1*i));
end

%%Assigning the x plots to to Axes(1): {Matlab sets plots color automatically}
for i = 1:size(Data(:,1),1)
    if ~isempty(h.Plots(i))
        set(h.Plots(i),...
            'Parent',h.Axes(1),...
            'LineWidth',[3.0],...
            'DisplayName',STAName);    
    end
end
h.Legend(1) = legend(h.Axes(1),'show');

%%Plotting same number of plots as in Axes(1) but a bit differently:
for i = 1:size(Data(:,1),1)  
    h.Plots(i,2) = plot(Data(i,:),(TxArray/4+(i-1)/3));
end

%%Assigning the x plots to Axes(2):
for i = 1:size(Data(:,1),1)
    if ~isempty(h.Plots(i))
        set(h.Plots(i,2),...
            'Parent',h.Axes(2),...
            'LineWidth',[3.0],...
            'color',get(h.Plots(i,1),'color'),...%%This is my current solution
            'DisplayName',STAName);    
    end
end