MATLAB: Is the text going in the wrong subplot

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I'm trying to add text to two subplots stacked vertically. The first add is successful. The second adds go into the top subplot instead of the bottom. The horzontal position is correct, as is the vertical as far as I can tell. The text just seems to be the wrong subplot. I'm using the 'Parent' property in the "text()" call, but it seems to be ignored.
To be clear, it behaves the same way without the 'Parent' property.
The plotted curves are correct in the lower subplot.
What am I doing wrong, please?
  figure ;
  h1 = subplot(2,1,1) ;
  plot(M_lag,M_res) ;
  title([ 'DLY = ' sprintf('%d',DLY) ]) ;
  ax1 = gca ;
  ax1.XTick = -(round(length(M_res),-1)+10)/2:50:round(length(M_res)/2,-1)+10 ;
  hold on
  plot([ M_dly M_dly ],ax1.YLim(2)*[ 0.03 0.16 ],'b') ;
  text('String',sprintf('%d',M_dly),'Position',[ M_dly ax1.YLim(2)*0.16 0 ], ...
             'HorizontalAlignment','center','VerticalAlignment','bottom','Parent',h1) ;
  h2 = subplot(2,1,2) ;
  plot(beg_window:end_window,ref_,'b',beg_window:end_window,res_,'m') ;
  title('ref + resp wave') ;
  ax2 = gca ;
  hold on
  plot([ peak_idx peak_idx ],ax2.YLim(2)*[ 0.03 0.16 ],'b') ;
  plot([ peak_idx+DLY peak_idx+DLY ],ax2.YLim(2)*[ 0.03 0.16 ],'b') ;
  text('String',sprintf('%d',peak_idx),'Position',[ peak_idx ax1.YLim(2)*0.16 0 ], ...
             'HorizontalAlignment','center','VerticalAlignment','bottom','Parent',h2) ;
  text('String',sprintf('%d',peak_idx+DLY),'Position',[ peak_idx+DLY ax1.YLim(2)*0.16 0 ], ...
             'HorizontalAlignment','center','VerticalAlignment','bottom','Parent',h2) ;

Best Answer

It is strange, that you use the dimensions of teh first axes ax1.YLim(2) to define the position of a text in the 2nd axes. So maybe the text is displayed in the 2nd axes, but at a position outside the boundaries, such that it occurs anywhere else, which is accidentally in the other axes. So try this:
  text(ax2, 'String', sprintf('%d', peak_idx), ...
       'Position', [peak_idx, ax2.YLim(2)*0.16, 0], ...
       ...  %                 ^^^ ax2 instead of ax1
       'HorizontalAlignment', 'center', ...
       'VerticalAlignment', 'bottom');
  text(ax2, 'String', sprintf('%d', peak_idx + DLY), ...
       'Position', [peak_idx + DLY, ax2.YLim(2)*0.16, 0], ...
       ...  %                       ^^^ ax2 instead of ax1
       'HorizontalAlignment', 'center', ...
       'VerticalAlignment', 'bottom');
By the way, if you have store the axes handles in h1 and h2 already, using ax1=gca and ax2=gca is redundant. Prefer one of the two methods. Instead of:
  h1 = subplot(2,1,1) ;
  plot(M_lag,M_res) ;
  title([ 'DLY = ' sprintf('%d',DLY) ]) ;
  ax1 = gca ;
use
  ax1 = subplot(2,1,1) ;
  plot(M_lag,M_res) ;
  title([ 'DLY = ' sprintf('%d',DLY) ]);
By the way, you are using ax2.YLim(2) to draw some elements, but the axes' limits are chosen automatically by Matlab. Therefore the location of these elements depends e.g. on the resolution of the monitor. Is this really wanted? You set the XTick values for the first plot, but the limits are not controlled, are they? Using ax1.Ylim to set elements in ax2 might make this worse.
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