Compatible plotyy and colorbar (or Confusion about Position, OuterPosition and ActivePositionProperty)

[Ben Abbott]

On Oct 12, 2008, at 3:35 PM, David Bateman wrote:

> However, the confusion about the Position, OuterPosition and  
> ActivePositionProperty remains in the sense that the intelligence to  
> calculate the size of the plot to allow for the axis labels, etc  
> isn't in Octave and so its possible to make the plots label either  
> fall outside the boundaries of the plot. At some point, we'll need  
> to add this intelligence to Octave.
>
> Regards
> David

I'm not familiar with Octave's c++, but suspect this job will be  
easier to manage if the "ActivePositionProperty" were to automatically  
switch between "position" and "outerposition" as it does with Matlab.

Meaning that if the ActivePositionProperty == "outerposition" and the  
axes position is set the, ActivePositionProperty is then implicitly  
set to "position".

... and vice versa.

For me Octave's inconsistency in following Matlab's example produced a  
great deal of confusion ... until a few days ago, I was under the  
impression that I couldn't change the position of an axes from the m- 
file side :-(

Ben