Get drawable axis position after axis equal

Say I run this simple test:

figure;
axis;
axis equal;

Then you resize it a little, and run this

disp(gca.Position)

The answer will always be

ans =
    0.1300    0.1100    0.7750    0.8150

which means the Position array will always stay the same, but the drawable (white) area of the axes object will always be resized to fit as much as possible inside that Position array.

The thing is that I want the actual position of the upper-right corner of the drawable area axes object. In this image, I want the position of the green point, not the red point to which I could arrive simply using Position.

Answer 1

[Jan]

See https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/5882-getting-the-axis-position-correctly : The properties TightInset and PlotBoxAspectRatio matter. Before you can interpret them, the axes' units must be set to pixels:

figure
h = axes
axis equal
pause(5);  % Change the figure size
h.Units = 'pixels';
disp(h.TightInset)
disp(h.PlotBoxAspectRatio)
disp(h.Position)
h.Units = normalized;

This should help you to find the solution. Unfortunately I cannot provide a working code yet.

[Nautilus]

Thanks for the help. It will still take some more math to get to the final result, but still it was a great help. Thank you.