How to avoid programmatically the data overlapping from legend in plots

Hi all,

I programmatically plot many data as a bar plot. Unfortunately for plots where the last bar is very high legend overlaps the bar. I may do it by setting ylim, but the data ranges may differ of several order of magnitude. Is there any programmatically way to avoid this?

Thank you

best regards

pietro

Answer 1

[Orion]

2 ways, If you want it inside :

% user defined position (ex : right bottom)
set(hleg1,'Position',[0.7443    0.1782    0.1518    0.1286])

% automatic
set(hleg1,'Location','best')

Answer 2

[Orion]

Hi

You could just put the legend outside the axe

figure
x = -pi:pi/20:1;
bar(x,cos(x),'b')
hold on 
bar(x,sin(x),'r')
hleg1 = legend('cos_x','sin_x');
pause(1)
set(hleg1,'Location','BestOutside')  % legend is outside

see the doc of legend for the different possibble location .

[pietro]

Hi Orion,

thanks for the kind reply. I knew the option, but I would prefer to place the legend inside to maximize the axes area.