Thread Subject: How do I set an axes' properties

I want to change properties of an axes I get using subplot, but it doesn't work.

    active.NextPlot = 'add';
    active.XLim = [0 display_duration];
    active.YLim = [-11 11];
    active.Title = 'mytitle';
    P(i) = subplot(total_channels,1,i);
    set(P(i), active);

I get the following error:
??? Error using ==> set
Value must be a handle.

Why is that? Do I always have to use "set" for each property and never a structural form?

"Abdel":

Hi !!!
Everything you've wrote is ok, except for this:
> active.Title = 'mytitle';

Your error is because "Title" is not a property for an "axes object"
If your subplot axes handle is P(i), type at the command window:

> set(P(i))

and you'll see all the adjustable properties of the object referenced by P(i)

"Gustavo Morales" <gustavo.morales.2000@gmail.com> wrote in message <gsuass$r0s$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Abdel":
>
> Hi !!!
> Everything you've wrote is ok, except for this:
> > active.Title = 'mytitle';
>
> Your error is because "Title" is not a property for an "axes object"
> If your subplot axes handle is P(i), type at the command window:
>
> > set(P(i))
>
> and you'll see all the adjustable properties of the object referenced by P(i)

Actually, Title is a property of axes object. But a string is not valid value for title, its value should be a handle of a text object. Just as the error message says.
This should do it:
active.Title = text('String','mytitle');

"Pekka Kumpulainen" :
> Actually, Title is a property of axes object. But a string is not valid value for title, its value should be a handle of a text object. Just as the error message says.
> This should do it:
> active.Title = text('String','mytitle');

Thanks for the observation! Title of course is an axes property: a handle for a text object, but the command:

title('String','MyString');

causes the error: {Incorrect number of input arguments} because "title" (I think) is expecting or an axes handle as its first argument (instead of a property name like 'String') or is expecting properly the personal string 'MyString' one want to set. So the code could be:

active.Title = title('MyString');