Shrinking the height of the colorbar

When I am plotting with subplots and one of the plots is shorter than the other, the use of colorbar on the shorter plot makes it smaller. Can I shrink the height of the colorbar or make the plot taller?

Answer 1

[Chad Greene]

cb = colorbar; 
set(cb,'position',[.15 .1 .1 .3])

where the position arguments are [xposition yposition width height].

[dustin]

By doing this, the right side loses it area for the colorbar causing the smaller colorbar to conflict with subplot 2.

[Chad Greene]

Ah, change it to

cb = colorbar('east'); 
set(cb,'position',[.15 .1 .1 .3])

[Chad Greene]

Alternatively, if horizontal space is an issue, consider using a horizontal colorbar with colorbar('south') or colorbar('northoutside') or whatever suits your fancy.

And yet another solution, is to let the first plot take up two-thirds of the figure

figure
subplot(1,3,[1:2])
plot(1:3,1:3,'r') 
cb1 = colorbar('south'); 

subplot(1,3,3)
plot(10:20,10:20,'b') 
cb2 = colorbar('northoutside')