Categorical bar plot in AppDesigner (change colors and add refline)

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Hello everybody,
I'm currently facing some issues with my categorical bar plot in Appdesigner. In the following a short example of what I'd like to achieve:
categorie=categorical({'Asia','USA','Europe'});
categorie = reordercats(categorie,{'Europe' 'Asia' 'USA'});
Data=[Population_Europe Population_Aisa Population_USA];
bar(app.UIAxes,categorie,Data)
I'm able to plot this, but I want to add two things, which I'm currently not able to:
1) Change the colours of the bars -> e.g. Europe = blue, Asia = green and USA =red
2) Add a horizontal line at a certain value across the whole bar plot. Here's a quick example, which does not work in appdesigner:
hold(app.UIAxes,'on')
bar(app.UIAxes,xlim,[100 100], 'r','LineWidth',2)
Thank you in advance for your help and have a great day!
Cheers, Christian

Accepted Answer

Kojiro Saito
Kojiro Saito on 21 May 2019
Edited: Kojiro Saito on 21 May 2019
1) You can set colors on each bar by CData property.
b = bar(app.UIAxes, categorie, Data, 'FaceColor', 'flat');
b.CData = [0 0 1; 0 1 0; 1 0 0];
UPDATED
2) In order to add red horizontal line, yline is the easiest way.
yline(app.UIAxes, 150, 'r', 'LineWidth', 2)
yline(app.UIAxes, 200, 'b', 'LineWidth', 2)
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Or alternatively, you can utilize grid, but line color and width is only one for this approach.
% Add holizontal red line using grid
grid(app.UIAxes)
app.UIAxes.XGrid = 'off';
app.UIAxes.Layer = 'top';
app.UIAxes.YTick = 100;
app.UIAxes.GridAlpha = 1;
app.UIAxes.GridColor = 'red';
This will work as the following.
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Jake
Jake on 5 Jun 2019
Kojiro, it was an issue with the version. I was on 2018a. Thank you!

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