Plot command inside a loop will not display all data unless drawnow is used
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riverCN
el 27 de Nov. de 2020
Comentada: riverCN
el 1 de Dic. de 2020
I am working with 2017b.
I have a script that creates a single figure with 3x1 subplots, and it contains a for loop.
Withing the loop, I use errorbar to plot X, Y, Y_error data. Each loop iteration, I plot a single point at each subplot (always in the same axes with the 'hold' property set to 'on').
Sometimes (and it annoys me so much that it's not always), some data points are not displayed in the plots when the script finished running.
However, if I use the 'drawnow()' command after each time I call the errorbar, then all points are displayed.
Is this a known bug, or is it an somewhat expected behaviour?
% CODE MISSING - WHERE VARIABLES ARE DEFINED - BUT HOPEFULLY THIS IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR DEBUGGING
for idxSubject = 1 : numel(uniqueSubjects)
filter_subject = ismember(subjects, uniqueSubjects(idxSubject));
% Creates figures
figureName1 = sprintf('%s', uniqueSubjects{idxSubject});
hFigMeasurementPoints = figure('Position', [0 0 1 1], 'WindowStyle','docked', 'color', 'white', 'Name', figureName1, 'NumberTitle', 'off');
subplot(3,1,1);
for idxLocation = 1 : numel (uniqueLocations)
filter_locations = ismember(locations, uniqueLocations(idxLocation));
% computes the mean and SD of water and bg;
avgW = mean(W(filter_subject&filter_locations), 'omitnan');
avgSNR = mean(snr(filter_subject&filter_locations), 'omitnan');
avgSBR = mean(sbr(filter_subject&filter_locations), 'omitnan');
sdW = std(W(filter_subject&filter_locations), 'omitnan');
sdSNR = std(snr(filter_subject&filter_locations), 'omitnan');
sdSBR = std(sbr(filter_subject&filter_locations), 'omitnan');
set(0, 'CurrentFigure', hFigAveragedData);
subplot(3,1,1); hold on;
errorbar(idxSubject-0.2+0.4*idxLocation/numel(uniqueLocations), avgW, sdW, 's', 'MarkerSize', 10, 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', myColors(idxLocation, :)); hold on;
title('W');
xlim([0.5, numel(uniqueSubjects)+0.5]);
ylim([65 85]);
xticks(1:numel(uniqueSubjects)); xticklabels(uniqueSubjects);
box on; grid on; grid minor;
legend(uniqueLocations);
subplot(3, 1,2); hold on;
errorbar(idxSubject-0.2+0.4*idxLocation/numel(uniqueLocations), avgSNR, sdSNR, 's', 'MarkerSize', 10, 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', myColors(idxLocation, :)); hold on;
title('SNR');
xlim([0.5, numel(uniqueSubjects)+0.5]);
ylim([0 500]);
xticks(1:numel(uniqueSubjects)); xticklabels(uniqueSubjects);
box on; grid on; grid minor;
legend(uniqueLocations);
subplot(3, 1,3); hold on;
errorbar(idxSubject-0.2+0.4*idxLocation/numel(uniqueLocations), avgSBR, sdSBR, 's', 'MarkerSize', 10, 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', myColors(idxLocation, :)); hold on;
title('SBR');
xlim([0.5, numel(uniqueSubjects)+0.5]);
ylim([0 0.12]);
xticks(1:numel(uniqueSubjects)); xticklabels(uniqueSubjects);
box on; grid on; grid minor;
legend(uniqueLocations);
% NOT ALL ITERATIONS WILL DISPLAY THE ERROR BAR POINT IN THE GRAPH IF I DON'T USE DRAWNOW HERE
drawnow();
end
end
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dpb
el 27 de Nov. de 2020
Not a type of symptom have seen, no. Looking at the code might let somebody spot something peculiar in the way the code was written. Is it not possible to vectorize and call errorbar with all the data? That would be more efficient...
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Jan
el 1 de Dic. de 2020
Editada: Jan
el 1 de Dic. de 2020
Missing plots can happen, if a timer or GUI callback changes the current figure. Instead of the instabkle method to set the current figure manually:
set(0, 'CurrentFigure', hFigAveragedData);
prefer to include the parents in the GUI commands explicitly:
% Omitted: set(0, 'CurrentFigure', hFigAveragedData);
hAxes = subplot(hFigAveragedData, 3,1,1); hold on;
errorbar(hAxes, idxSubject-0.2+0.4*idxLocation/numel(uniqueLocations), ...
Then users clicking in other open GUIs do not confuse the creation of diagrams.
If clarity of the code matters, avoid repeated code, e.g.:
match = (filter_subject & filter_locations);
avgW = mean(W(match), 'omitnan');
avgSNR = mean(snr(match), 'omitnan');
...
barProps = {'s', 'MarkerSize', 10, 'LineWidth', 2, 'Color', myColors(idxLocation, :)};
xData = (idxSubject - 0.2 + 0.4 * idxLocation / numel(uniqueLocations));
errorbar(xData, avgW, sdW, barProps{:});
hold on;
Is it really useful to set the ticks, labels and titles in each iteration? Better do this once only.
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