linkaxes of different stackedplots

Hi,

To display different signals with the same x-axis I used stackedplot. To compare different events of the signals I used subplot to display different stackplots side by side (in columns).

I would like to connect the axes, i.e. when I zoom or move a signal, this is done for all the signals of the other subplots as well.

If I want to use linkaxes, I get the error message: "There must be at least one valid axes."

Can anyone help me?

Here is the simplified code, which should run for everyone

X = [0:4:20];
Y = randi(100,6,3);
hAx(1) =  subplot(1, 2, 1);
    s = stackedplot(X,Y);
    s.title('Plot 1');
    
    
hAx(2) =  subplot(1, 2, 2);
    s = stackedplot(X,Y);
    s.title('Plot 2');
    
% linkaxes(hAx, 'x');
linkaxes([hAx(1) hAx(2)],'x')

[Adam Danz]

If you look at hAx(1) or hAx(2) after creating the two stackedplots you'll notice that they are handles to deleted axes. That's because the stackedplots replace the subplots.

stackedplot handles are not axes so you cannot use them with linkaxes.

linkprop([s1,s2],'XLimits') also didn't work, where s1 and s2 are the two stackedplot handles.

The XLimits property is not defined to be SetObservable so adding a listener would also not work.

Bummer....

[EK]

oh crap, thanks for the help. Do you know a similar plot like Stackedplot, which allows you to zoom the subplots at the same time (for example with linkaxes)?

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

I found a solution (weeks later) using the undocumented NodeChildren property to get the axis handles.

Instead of using the subplot command to position the stackedplot objects, you can specify their parent object as a panel, tab, tiledLayout, or gridLayout (see this answer).

fig = figure();
tlo = tiledlayout(fig,1,2);
nexttile(tlo);
s1 = stackedplot(rand(20,4),'Parent',tlo); 

nexttile(tlo);
s2 = stackedplot(rand(20,4),'Parent',tlo); 

% Get axes
ax1 = findobj(s1.NodeChildren, 'Type','Axes');
ax2 = findobj(s2.NodeChildren, 'Type','Axes');
linkaxes([ax1,ax2],'x')

[Seth Furman]

@EK, would it meet your use case to combine horizontally adjacent sub-plots from these side-by-side stacked plots?

For example

rng default

X = 0:4:20;
Y = randi(100,6,6);
stackedplot(array2table([X' Y]),{[1 4] [2 5] [3 6]},'XVariable',1);