# Makie inplace plot recipe
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-inplace-plot-recipe/54857
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** plotting, makie, recipe
**Created:** [February 8, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-inplace-plot-recipe/54857 "2021-02-08T18:00:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@zekeriya.sari](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zekeriya.sari)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-inplace-plot-recipe/54857/1 "2021-02-08T18:00:06Z")
Is it possible to define an in-place plotting recipe using Makie? For example, the following recipe works properly.
```julia
using Makie
@recipe(MyPlot, x, y) do scene
Attributes(
plot_color = :red,
)
end
function AbstractPlotting.plot!(myplot::MyPlot)
data = rand(10)
lines!(myplot, data, color=myplot.plot_color)
scatter!(myplot, data, color=myplot.plot_color)
myplot
end
fig = Figure()
myplot(fig[1, 1], rand(10), rand(10), plot_color=:black)
```
The problem is that when I execute the last statement again, like,
```julia
myplot(fig[1, 1], rand(10), rand(10), plot_color=:green)
```
I get the following error
```julia
ERROR: AssertionError: isempty(contents(fp.gp, exact = true))
Stacktrace:
[1] plot(::Type{Combined{myplot, ArgType} where ArgType}, ::AbstractPlotting.FigurePosition, ::Vector{Float64}, ::Vararg{Vector{Float64}, N} where N; axis::NamedTuple{(), Tuple{}}, kwargs::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Symbol, Symbol, Tuple{Symbol}, NamedTuple{(:plot_color,), Tuple{Symbol}}})
@ AbstractPlotting ~/.julia/packages/AbstractPlotting/50gu0/src/figureplotting.jl:44
[2] myplot(::AbstractPlotting.FigurePosition, ::Vararg{Any, N} where N; attributes::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Symbol, Symbol, Tuple{Symbol}, NamedTuple{(:plot_color,), Tuple{Symbol}}})
@ Main ~/.julia/packages/AbstractPlotting/50gu0/src/recipes.jl:12
[3] top-level scope
@ REPL[43]:1
[4] eval
@ ./boot.jl:360 [inlined]
```
Is there a possible solution for this?
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### Author:  [@zekeriya.sari](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zekeriya.sari)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2021, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-inplace-plot-recipe/54857/2 "2021-02-08T18:08:30Z")
Ok. If the first argument is `Axis` instead of `Figure`, multiple executions work without errors.
```julia
fig = Figure()
ax = fig[1, 1] = Axis(fig)
myplot(ax, rand(10), rand(10), plot_color=:black)
myplot(ax, rand(10), rand(10), plot_color=:green)
```
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### Author:  [@zekeriya.sari](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zekeriya.sari)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2021, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-inplace-plot-recipe/54857/3 "2021-02-08T18:34:14Z")
Once an axis is constructed and inserted into `fig`, the first `ax` argument to `myplot` can be dropped. As far as I can see, once an axis is inserted into `fig`, `fig.current_axis` is not `nothing` anymore. So the following is also possible,
```julia
fig = Figure()
ax = fig[1, 1] = Axis(fig)
myplot(rand(10), rand(10), plot_color=:black)
myplot(rand(10), rand(10), plot_color=:green)
```
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-inplace-plot-recipe/54857/4 "2021-02-09T08:24:09Z")
The behavior of the different plotting function signatures is explained here [http://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/plot\_method\_signatures.html](http://makie.juliaplots.org/stable/plot_method_signatures.html)
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### Author:  [@zekeriya.sari](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zekeriya.sari)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-inplace-plot-recipe/54857/5 "2021-02-09T08:25:56Z")
@jules Yes, figured that out late 😀 Thank you.
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 8:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-inplace-plot-recipe/54857/6 "2021-02-09T08:32:41Z")
Great 🙂 I thought maybe you had pieced everything together yourself 😉
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### Author:  [@zekeriya.sari](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zekeriya.sari)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-inplace-plot-recipe/54857/7 "2021-02-09T08:34:29Z")
After a couple of trial and error. 😃