figure inset

The function plotting figure inside figure (main and inset) from 2 existing figures.

Description

The function plotting figure inside figure (main and inset) from 2 existing figures.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; The Krouchev Journal-Figure Advanced MATLAB Toolkit
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.8 (R2009a)

[Ernesto Momox Beristain]

Simple code that does the job. However, it would be nice to place the inset in a similar way as with the legends, i.e.,

legend('My_inset','Location','SouthEast');

It works though!

[Marco Buiatti]

I confirm the previous comment: simple to use, it does the job, the example is nicely illustrative.
Only bug: when I inserted it into a matlab function plotting several consecutive plots (main + inset), it did not work until I numbered figures with high numbers. I guess there's a trivial interference between the number of the composite figure (automatically the lowest available) and the number of the following figures.

[Aditi Goswami]

How do I change the position of the inset on the main plot, to say 'SouthEast'?

[Moshe Lindner]

Hi Aditi.
You need no modify the last line in the function.
try to cahnge it to:
set(h_inset,'Position', [.7*ax(1)+ax(3)-inset_size 1.4*ax(2) inset_size inset_size])

[Shatrughan]

extremely useful and great !!! easy to work with...Keep rocking .........

[Erik]

When using legends, the code does not work if a legend is added in fig1 or fig2 (referring to the notation in the inset_example.m file) before calling the inset function. Adding a legend to fig1 seems to give it two different axes, which confuses inset.m.

A legend can however, be added afterwards to the new figure containing the inset by adding the row legend(h_m,'toggle') or legend(h_i,'toggle') at the bottom of inset_example.m.

Thanks for a nice code!

[Moshe Lindner]

Eric - thanks for your comment.

[dd]

Hi,
How do you get it then at N-W position?
Thks

[Moshe Lindner]

Hi dd.
try to change the last line in the code to:
 set(h_inset,'Position', [.7*ax(1)+0.2*(ax(3)-inset_size) .5*ax(2)+ax(4)-inset_size inset_size inset_size])