hello, i have 4 figures and need to combine them to one. How can I do it?

Any help would be appreciated...Thank you

[Jan]

What do you want to combine and what does "combine" exactly mean? Do you want to create a dock-figure, which contain the 4 figures with there borders and menus? Or do you want 4 subplot objects copied from the figures?

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Figures cannot be containers for other figures. The typical approach to this is to create a uipanel and place what would typically be a figure's contents into it.

Answer 2

[Mahdi]

If you mean to plot 4 data sets onto the same figure, use the hold on after every plot (or you can do it all together):

x1=rand(1,20);
y1=rand(1,20);
x2=rand(1,20);
y2=rand(1,20);
plot(x1,y1,'ro',x2,y2,'b.')

This puts all of the data into the same figure. (the 'ro' and 'b.' are just formats) Alternatively, you can also do this

plot(x1,y1,'ro')
hold on
plot(x2,y2,'b.')

Answer 3

[Jan]

Perhaps you want something like this:

desktop = com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance;
myGroup = desktop.addGroup('myGroup');
desktop.setGroupDocked('myGroup', 0);
myDim = java.awt.Dimension(5, 2);
desktop.setDocumentArrangement('myGroup', 2, myDim)
figH = zeros(1, 10);
for iFig = 1:10
   figH(iFig) = figure('WindowStyle', 'docked', ...
      'Name', sprintf('Figure %d', iFig), 'NumberTitle', 'off');
   set(get(handle(figH(iFig)), 'javaframe'), 'GroupName', 'myGroup');
end

This is heavily undocumented and tested in R2009a only.