Alter axis size

How do I alter the size of the current axis within a figure? I've tried set(gca,'Position',[.. .. .. ..]), but the axis just disappears.

Answer 1

[Jan]

Then the part "[.. .. .. ..]" moves the axes out of the visible area of the figure. It would be helpful, if you post the original command instead of masking the interesting part by dots. Try this:

figure('Units', 'pixels', 'Position', [100, 100, 600, 400]);
AxesH = axes;
pause(1);
set(AxesH, 'Units', 'pixels', 'Position', [10, 10, 200, 200]);
pause(1);
set(AxesH, 'Units', 'normalized', 'Position', [0.5, 0.5, 0.4, 0.4]);

[Frank]

Thanks. "'Units','pixels'" was what I was after.

Answer 2

[Grzegorz Knor]

Try:

set(gca,'Units','normalized','Position',[x y w h])

where x, y, w, h belong to the interval [0 1].