Textures for bar plots

Hello, does anyone know of a way to add textures (eg. diagonal hatches) to a bar plot without making a bitmap copy of the figure, but keeping it as a .fig? (ie. a different than http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/1736-hatched-fill-patterns)

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

You could do it with LINE objects, though it would take a little fiddling:

B = bar([3 4 5],.75)
xd = get(B,'xdata')
yd = get(B,'ydata')
bw = get(B,'barwidth')

for ii = 1:5
    line(xd(1)+[-bw bw]/2,[0 1]+(ii-1)/2,'linewidth',5,'color','k')
end

line(xd(1)+[-bw/2 0],[2.5 3],'linewidth',5,'color','k')
line(xd(1)+[0 bw/2],[0 .5],'linewidth',5,'color','k')

Answer 2

[Andrew Newell]

Hatchfill, from the File Exchange, finds the patch objects and hatches them. It seems a little buggy, though (at least when applied to bar plots).

EDIT: I see why it has problems with bar plots. Each set of bars of the same color form one patch object.