Tweak legend entries without creating a new legend
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Chad Greene
on 11 Jul 2014
Answered: Rodrigo Bernal
on 13 Jul 2021
I have created a plot with a legend and now I would like to edit legend entries without recreating the whole legend. For example, for five legend entries I would like to reorder them like
newOrder = [2 3 5 4 1];
I can reorder the entries by first getting current legend handles and strings like this:
[~,~,plot_h,text_strings] = legend;
And then I can reorder the entries like this:
legend(plot_h(newOrder),text_strings{newOrder})
However, this doesn't only reorder the legend; it seems to delete the legend I'd already created, with its perfect placement and color scheme, etc, and creates a new legend with entries in the correct new order. How can I edit these entries without screwing up the placement, colors, boxoff, etc that I've already set?
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Rodrigo Bernal
on 13 Jul 2021
Edit a specific legend entry of an existing legend:
figu=gca;
figu.Legend.String(6)={'Edit the 6th legend'};
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