Automatic Axes Resize behavior

Hi

Just a simple question, it seems that for 3D figures the position and outerposition of the axes do not quite match with what is explained in the following documnetation link: http://www.mathworks.se/help/techdoc/creating_plots/f1-32495.html

As I ran a very simple code to get the extent of the axes:

function DmnstrBrdrFg

plot3(1:5,1:5,1:5)
set(gca,'XTickLabel',[],'YTickLabel',[],'ZTickLabel',[])
Ps= get(gca,'Position');
OPs= get(gca,'OuterPosition');

PltBrdr(Ps,'P')
PltBrdr(OPs,'O')

function PltBrdr(Ps,Chr)

FndDtPnts(Ps(1),Ps(2),Chr,1);
FndDtPnts(Ps(1)+Ps(3),Ps(2),Chr,2);
FndDtPnts(Ps(1)+Ps(3),Ps(2)+Ps(4),Chr,3);
FndDtPnts(Ps(1),Ps(2)+Ps(4),Chr,4);

function Out=FndDtPnts(Ps1,Ps2,Chr,Id)

text(Ps1,Ps2,[Chr '_'num2str(Id)],'Unit','normalized','Visible','on');

As it seems the corners of OuterPosition point at where it is supposed to be the corners of Position and I don't know what are the corners where Position point at.

Any idea?

Best regards Afshin

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

The normalized region for the text is at the outer border of the position. To get it further out, you have to work outside the range of [0 1]. Consider somehting liek this:

function DmnstrBrdrFg
plot3(1:5,1:5,1:5)
set(gca,'XTickLabel',[],'YTickLabel',[],'ZTickLabel',[])
Ps= get(gca,'Position');
OPs= get(gca,'OuterPosition');
set(gcf,'activepositionproperty','outerposition');
PltBrdr(Ps,'P')
PltBrdr2(OPs,'O')

function PltBrdr(Ps,Chr)
FndDtPnts(Ps(1),Ps(2),Chr,1);
FndDtPnts(Ps(1)+Ps(3),Ps(2),Chr,2);
FndDtPnts(Ps(1)+Ps(3),Ps(2)+Ps(4),Chr,3);
FndDtPnts(Ps(1),Ps(2)+Ps(4),Chr,4);

function Out=FndDtPnts(Ps1,Ps2,Chr,Id)
text(Ps1,Ps2,[Chr '_' num2str(Id)],'Unit','normalized','Visible','on');

function PltBrdr2(Ps,Chr)
FndDtPnts(Ps(1)-.1,Ps(2)-.1,Chr,1);
FndDtPnts(Ps(1)+Ps(3)+.1,Ps(2)-.1,Chr,2);
FndDtPnts(Ps(1)+Ps(3)+.1,Ps(2)+Ps(4)+.1,Chr,3);
FndDtPnts(Ps(1)-.1,Ps(2)+Ps(4)+.1,Chr,4);

function Out=FndDtPnts2(Ps1,Ps2,Chr,Id)
text(Ps1,Ps2,[Chr '_' num2str(Id)],'Unit','normalized','Visible','on');