MATLAB: Set color of each element in stacked barh

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I have a series of events that I want to stack on top of each other in a timeline. There are two operators executing the events over the same timeline "Cole" and "Mele". I want to be able to set the color of the elements in the stacked barh according to the name of the event. For example, all events starting with "Col" (Col, Col1) should be the same color, but still differentiated by a black line if they occur right after each other. Similarly all events starting with "Mel" and so on. And then I'd like to be able to call out these events in the legend. Setting the 'facecolor' of the elements of h just sets the same numbered element in each bar to the same color. Any ideas?
Egr        = 96;
Col1       = 45;
Col        = 23.5;
Hib1_col   = 378.5;
ConTra     = 1;
Mel1       = 12;
Mel        = 16;
Id1        = 44;
Id2        = 11.5;
Id3        = 7.5;
Hib1_mel   = 362.5;
Cole = [Egr Col1    Col   Col    Col   Col    Col   Col    Col   Hib1_col    0      0       0      0      0      0      0      0         0];
Mele = [Egr ConTra  Id1   Mel1   Id2   Mel    Id3   Mel    Id3   Mel         Id3    Mel     Id3    Mel    Id3    Mel    Id3    Mel       Hib1_mel];
names = {'CR'; 'MCR'};
A = [ 1 Cole
      2 Mele];
  
figure();  
h = barh(A(:,2:20), 'stacked');
set(gca,'ytick',[1:2],'yticklabel',names)
set(gca,'YDir','reverse')
grid on

Best Answer

This thread answered my question: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/360292-how-can-i-change-the-color-of-each-stack-in-stacked-bar-plot
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