Re: Plot command sequence behavior

[John W. Eaton]

On 23-Mar-2008, Bill Denney wrote:

| Daniel J Sebald wrote:
| > I want to confirm the behavior of plot commands.  I've noticed that 
| > doing a "plot()" wipes away the settings for plot elements.  For 
| > example, I get
| >
| > title("hi");
| > <a plot appears with no data but a title saying "hi">
| > plot([0:50]);
| > <the plot is updated with the data appearing, but the title "hi" is gone>
| >
| > This isn't very nice.  It means after setting up a bunch of plot 
| > elements a fresh "plot()" to change the data means having to re-enter 
| > the plot elements.
| >
| > Is the above behavior correct?
| >
| > Dan
| Hi Dan,
| 
| I think that it is.

Right, the plot function is a "high-level" graphics function so it calls
the newplot function to start a new plot.

| I think that to get the behavior that you want you 
| would want to do
| 
| title("hi")
| hold on
| plot([0:50]);

Or just add plot decorations after making the plot:

  plot (0:50);
  title ("hi");

jwe