MATLAB errorbar colors don't match plot

Hi everyone,

I am using MATLAB R2015b, and plotting with the same errorbar function I have used for many years. Suddenly, the errorbars on my plot are all different colors!

If I plot:

errorbar(1:1:10,1:1:10,2*(ones(1,10)),'.r')

I should have red datapoints and red errorbars, correct? Instead I see...

Where the colors on the errorbars vary from green in the lower left, black in the middle, red in the upper right. I can't figure out where this is coming from. Any thoughts?

[Walter Roberson]

That sounds familiar but I cannot find a reference to it.

In the meantime, I wonder if it is somehow related to https://www.mathworks.com/support/bugreports/1283854 ?

[Joseph Cheng]

odd... just copying and pasting your example shows up as all red for me. Is there anything else being plotted? or maybe closing all figures, or specifying a new figure would help? I can't think of a reason but maybe a setting was left over in an open plot that this one is keeping instead of clearing the figure/axes before it plots the errorbars?

[Eli]

I'm having the exact same issue. Similar to you, my error bar color seems to change over the course of the plot, and it's not the same as the main plot color. If I generate an errorbar plot in MATLAB 2010a and then open the .fig file in 2015b, the same issue arises.

Applying the patch Walter Roberson linked to does not seem to fix the problem.

Answer 1

[Eli]

I filed a bug report, and got a fix! Just run the command

opengl software

and then try plotting again. It should look correct.

[Patricia]

That fixed it! Eli- you rule!!