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reorder legend items

Jerry — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:34:02 -0400

figure;
plot(0:10,0:10,'rx-',0:10,10:-1:0,'go--');
legend('cross','circle');

the order of the legend items depends on the oder of plotting, i.e., in the example above, it will be "rx- cross" on the top. Is there any way to switch the order without re-plot? switching the string is not hard, but I didn't figure out how to switch the whole thing, e.g., make "go-- circle" on the top. This is useful, for example, after you create a figure with a legend of many items, then for some reason, you want to change the order of the legend. (the order of plotting may be ad hoc, but you want your legend follow some rule).

Thanks.

reorder legend items

Husam Aldahiyat — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:55:04 -0400

Sure you can change that by giving each graphic object a handle then using the Legend form
legend(h,'string1','string2',...)

for example

h1=plot(a,b)
h2=findojb('color','g')

legend([h2, h1],'green plot','something')

reorder legend items

Jerry — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:25:04 -0400

it's easy to get the string in the legend box. however, it's difficult to get their corresponding handles of the graphy objects they represent without specifying some particular properties of the graph object in findobj. I'm trying to write a function like this

function reorderlegend(newidx,hax)

where hax is the handle of the axes.
if there are five graph objects in the axes, by newidx=[2 1 4 3 5], we'll be able to switch items 1 and 2, and switch items 3 and 4 in the legend box. if we can get the handles of the graph objects (hgraph) that the legend strings represent, we can use
legend(hgraph(newidx),str(newidx)) to achieve our goal.

"Husam Aldahiyat" <numandina@gmail.com> wrote in message <gegjuo$qko$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Sure you can change that by giving each graphic object a handle then using the Legend form
> legend(h,'string1','string2',...)
>
> for example
>
> h1=plot(a,b)
> h2=findojb('color','g')
>
> legend([h2, h1],'green plot','something')
>