Colormap tool for different axes

I have a GUI with different axes. I wan to be able to change colormaps when I want and for the axes I want.

The idea is to use something as

imcolormaptool

However, this only works for the last generated axes in the GUI Figure. If I try to pass an axes handle I just get the error:

Function IMCOLORMAPTOOL expected its first input argument, HCLIENT,
to be a handle of one of these types:

   figure

Instead, its type was: axes.

Is there a way of doing what I want?

Answer 1

[per isakson]

Coloprmap is a property of Figure. Thus, all axes of a figure share the same colormap at any point in time. imcolormaptool helps you change the colormap of a figure - and all its child-axes.

See: Can we use more than one colormap in one plot ?

[carlos Uribe]

I am using this

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7943

to get different colormaps for different axes...

I was wondering if somehow I could use the imcolormaptool to do something similar.

[per isakson]

No you cannot

    The Choose Colormap tool is an interactive colormap selection tool that
    allows you to change the colormap of the target (current) **figure** by
    selecting a colormap from a list of MATLAB colormap functions or 
    workspace variables, or by entering a custom MATLAB expression.

"freezeColors / unfreezeColors [...]Converts colors of many graphics [...] to [r g b] truecolor." Thus, the axes use true-color, not the colormap. The figure still has only one colormap.