@Ron – Tick labels are strings. If you want to use images, then set the ticklabels to empty (i.e., do not show any ticks) and programmatically add images at the relevant [negative] axes locations based on the computed tick positions. You will need to update the images and their location whenever the axes resizes or zooms or pans or changes its ticks in whichever way (details). To be honest, I’m not sure that it’s worth all this effort…

@Jim – done 🙂

Would it be possible to add an “update” section by the blurb on the listener to describe the change with HG2? I’m specifically thinking something that references MarkedClean and YRuler. I’m fine but it might be nice for others …

Thanks,
Jim

do you know a way to change the XTickLabel vertical position, a.k.a its distance from the x-axis line? The generally suggested solution is to recreate the labels using the text() command, but there should be a simpler way to do it!
Do you have any suggestion?

Thanks,
Sandor

thanks for providing this kind of input and the ticklabelformat. I’m also thankful for the comments as I had no idea why the callbacks for axis properties do not work anymore with HG2. Already in HG1 some things are confusing, since somehow the event argument is of different type, depending on…well I don’t really know. But in HG2 addlistener does somehow not work on those properties.

Would it be possible to provide a fully working example callback function for HG2 (maybe in the docstring of the ticklabelformat function)?. The one given above apparently does not work (only tested with HG2). The second argument has only two properties: .Source and something else. I tried to access the ticks via – I think it was – .Source.Tick, but it did not work properly and even crashed MATLAB. All my old callbacks do not work anymore with the new HG2. Sad, that TWM does not supply easy instructions on updating customized tick labels as this is quite a substantial thing, when examining data using a plot and the pan/zoom functionality. Thanks.

@Damayi – Yes, in HG2 we need to listen to the HG object’s MarkedClean event, rather than to a property change event.

I’ve updated my ticklabelformat utility accordingly, so that it works with both HG1 (pre-R2014a) and HG2 (R2014b+). Use this utility as-is, and/or look within its source code for the implementation details.

Do you have a resolution for this problem?