edit color of colorbar scaling-factor

Dear experts,

when using a colorbar in front of a dark background I wish to set the font color to white. Editing the Colorbar color propertiy does that nicely

mycolorbarhandle.Color = [1 1 1]

However, whenever the automatic scaling takes place, i.e. my colorbar "decides" not to display the value 13000 but instead the value 1.3 and a little "x10^4" text is added, this multiplier of x10^4 will always be displayed black, not in the font color I chose before. So far I have been unable to identify which handle is resposible for this "x10^4" text label.

Has anybody encountered a similar problem and has found a solution? I'd also appreciate siggestions on whre to find the handle for this text.

Thank you!

[Adam Danz]

The exponential notation changes color correctly when I try it. Try editing the color after you've made all other changes to the axes. If that doesn't help, share some reproducible code.

surf(peaks*10000000)
ch = colorbar; 
ch.Color = 'r';  %change to red

Answer 1

[Thomas Ernst]

Thank you Adam, you pointed me in the right direction. :-)

Setting the right color property to white once again at the end does the trick of refreshing even the exponent color.

Turns out the program I used to generate my graphics (slover from the SPM package for neuroimaging) does not use the colorbar object at all, but instead generated a subplot axis object. Hence my exponent in question is the y-axis exponent of that object and as such does not supply a handle by MATLAB default. While the axes were created with the color set to white ( axes(...,'Ycolor',[1 1 1],...) ), the exponent will only turn white after explicitly setting the y-axis color to white once again after the figure was created and filled with data. Well...

myCbarHandle.YAxis.Color = 'w';