legendbar

LEGENDBAR places your items in legend in just same way as they stacked in bar, from the first item at lowest place up to last item at highest place.

Don't forget to write the corresponding strings in opposite order as well!

Example: the same as in "help legend"

but here legend looks much nicer:

x = 0:.2:12;
plot(x,bessel(1,x),x,bessel(2,x),x,bessel(3,x));
legend('First','Second','Third');
legend('First','Second','Third',-1)

b = bar(rand(10,5),'stacked'); colormap(summer); hold on
x = plot(1:10,5*rand(10,1),'marker','square','markersize',12,...
'markeredgecolor','y','markerfacecolor',[.6 0 .6],...
'linestyle','-','color','r','linewidth',2); hold off
legend([legendbar(b),x],'Cucumbers','Green Beans','Peppers',...
'Peas','Carrots','Eggplant')