How to change width of bottom colorbar keeping the title

Hey,

I want to change the width of the colorbar. Matlab suggest to

ax = gca; 
axpos = ax.Position; 
cpos = cb.Position; 
cpos(4) = 0.5*cpos(4);  
cb.Position = cpos; 
ax.Position = axpos;

It basically works but I had to change the height of the colorbar. I used:

cpos(2) = cpos(2)+0.12;

Unfortunately, doing so makes me loose my figure title. Does anyone know how to keep the titel? I use Matlab 2015b. In my code I change the figure Position and I use the scatter function for plotting. Here is an extract of my code:

figure('Position', Position);
scatter(x,z,size,log10(Value),'s','filled'); 
set(gca, 'FontSize',fs); set(gca,'YDir','reverse'); 
set(gca,'XLim',[0 length]); set(gca,'YLim',[0 ylim]); 
set(gca,'XAxisLocation','top')
cb=colorbar('location','southoutside'); 
ax = gca; axpos = ax.Position; cpos = cb.Position; cpos(4) = 0.5*cpos(4); cpos(2) = cpos(2)+0.12;
cb.Position = cpos; ax.Position = axpos;
title(ti,'FontSize',ts);

I hope anyone can help the very thick colorbar looks quite bad in some plots... Thank you!

Answer 1

[KSSV]

position vector is 1x4 where pos(1),pos(2) gives the origin where color begins. Try to push colorbar down by moving pos(2) downwards.

pos(2) = pos(2)-dy...where dy is fraction you want to push colorbar down...

[Sina]

Maybe I was not clear. I actually did this and everything looks nice but the title of the plot is gone. That is my problem. I need the title... I hope you can help me with that too.

Answer 2

[Sina]

Please. Can nobody help me? The huge colorbar looks terrible. Why does it get so big anyway?