- The best solution is to upgrade to a newer release of Matlab.
- Update your current release might address the problem (I haven't looked into when the x-tick problem was solved).
- If updating doesn't fix it and you cannot upgrade, the snippet below will replace your xtick labels with text objects (see inline comments for important details).
Using text to replace axis ticks, robust to axis resizing and axis limit changes
The problem of using text objects to place axis ticks is that text objects are anchored to the axis so if the axis limits change or the figure is resized, the text objects will no longer be in the correct place.
To avoid the problem, add a listener that updates the text objects anytime the axis limit, size, or location changes. Now, when the axis limit changes or the figure resizes, the xtick lable text objects will be reproduced.
x = logspace(.1,5,10);
y = 1:numel(x);
fig = figure();
ax = axes(fig);
plot(ax,x,y,'-o')
grid on
ax.XScale = 'log';
addlistener(ax,'XLim','PostSet',@(ob,ev)updateXTick(ob,ev,ax));
fig.SizeChangedFcn = {@updateXTick,ax};
updateXTick([],[],ax);
Define the function that responds to figure resize and xlim changes.
function th = updateXTick(~, ~, ax)
scale = 0;
oldXTick = findall(ax,'Tag', 'pseudoXTickLabels');
delete(oldXTick)
ax.XTickLabelMode = 'auto';
ax.XTickMode = 'auto';
xt.ticks = ax.XTick;
xt.labs = ax.XTickLabel;
ax.XTickLabel = [];
drawnow
yl = ylim(ax);
yLabelPos = yl(1) - (yl(2)-yl(1))*scale;
th = text(ax, xt.ticks, repmat(yLabelPos,size(xt.ticks)), xt.labs,...
'VerticalAlignment', 'top', 'HorizontalAlignment', 'center', ...
'FontSize', ax.FontSize, 'tag', 'pseudoXTickLabels', ...
'HandleVisibility', 'off');
end
