Drawing Error bars with specific linestyle

Hello to everybody, does anyone know a way for drawing errorbars with the same style of the data line?

For example, when using:

d = errorbar(x,y,y_error,'Linestyle', ':');

MATLAB returns the data lines in dotted style, while the bars in each of the points are straight. What if I want also the bars in the dotted style?

Answer 1

[Savio Sciancalepore]

EDIT, issued solved.

There is an undocumented "Bar" property associated with the errorbar command.

Therefore, you can set the style of your bar line with a syntax like this:

d = errorbar(1:3, 1:3, 1:3, 'LineStyle', ':');
d.Bar.LineStyle = 'dotted';

Answer 2

[dpb]

Set the 'linestyle' property of the second errorbar series object obtained from the hggroup handle returned by errorbar -- from the example

>>  X = 0:pi/10:pi;
    Y = sin(X);
    E = std(Y)*ones(size(X));  % the example data...
>> hE=errorbar(X,Y,E);         % save handle this time
>> get(hE,'type')      % what is the handle?
ans =
hggroup
>> hEC=get(hE,'children');     % and get the objects
>> get(hEC,'type')             % and what are they???
ans = 
  'line'
  'line'
>>

Aha! they're the two lines...take a chance the errorbars are the second; data the first...

>>  set(hEC(2),'linestyle',':')
>>

Unfortunately, TMW didn't implement being able to set both 'linestyle' properties from the UI named parameter. If they'd accept a cell array of strings, could apply them to the two objects if present but didn't so you have to set the property separately after locating the proper object handle.