GUI reset secondary axes that contain no data

Hi, I've got an Arrhenius diagram that describes diffusion (x: 10000 / T ; y: log(D)) embedded in a GUI for which I generate secondary axes showing the corresponding temperature at the top of the diagram. But I do not use the secondary axis to plot data. The plot is generated via a push-button. Each time I press this button, the secondary axes gets plotted again and thus the axes and labels get thicker with each click. I want to get rid of this. I have included cla(handles.axes2) in my code, but this does just reset the primary axes. So, how can I reset both the primary and secondary axes? How can I get a handle on the secondary axes?

Here is a minimum example of my code:

   cla(handles.axes2, 'reset');

    data = [1250,2.5e-11;1300,2.7e-11;1350,7.1e-11;1400,7.2e-11;1450,1.1e-10];
    xdata2   = data(:,1)+273;
    ydata2   = data(:,2);

    T_C = [1600:-100:500]; 
    T_K = T_C+273;
    xtick = 10000./T_K;

    axes(handles.axes2)

    h3 = semilogy(10000./xdata2, ydata2, 'k*');

    xlabel('10000/T [K]', 'FontSize',12,'FontWeight','bold')
    ylabel('log(D)', 'FontSize',12,'FontWeight','bold')

    ax1 = gca;
    ax1.XLim = [5.5 11];
    ax1.Box = 'off';

    ax1_pos = ax1.Position; % position of first axes
    ax1_lim = ax1.XLim;
    ax2 = axes(...              
    'XAxisLocation','top',...
    'YAxisLocation','right',...
    'XTick', [],...
    'XLim',ax1_lim, ...
    'Units', 'character',...
    'Color','none');

    set(ax2, 'Position', ax1_pos, 'XTick', xtick, 'XTickLabel', T_C, 'YTick', [])         % 'XDir','Reverse'
    xlabel('Temperature (°C)', 'FontSize',12,'FontWeight','bold')

    hold off

Of course this example will not run on its own as it needs the axes of my GUI etc. But you do get an idea. If would do this outside of the GUI, the figure would be overwritten completely each time, so there would be no problem.

I'd be very happy, if somebody could point me into the right direction. Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

[Karan Singh]

Hi @Yves Feisel,

How about at the start of your callback you can check if it already exists and delete it before creating a new one. For example:

% If a secondary axes already exists, delete it:
if isfield(handles, 'secondaryAxes') && isvalid(handles.secondaryAxes)
    delete(handles.secondaryAxes);
end

This can sort out the issue I guess.

Karan