How do I place a title on top of a subplot, as a part of the figure, in MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a) ?

I want to know how I can place a title string on top of a figure consisting of multiple subplots. The command TITLE only works for axes. So I can place a title for each of the subplots but not a 'super' title for the whole figure.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The ability to place a title string on top of a figure is not available in MATLAB.

To work around this issue, create a UICONTROL of the style 'text'. This will be a child of the figure and not of the axes. This way you can put the title anywhere on the figure. You can position the UIControl so that it acts like a title for the figure.

Following code will accomplish that:

h = figure;

uicontrol('Style', 'text', 'String', 'My Title', ...

'HorizontalAlignment', 'center', 'Units', 'normalized', ...

'Position', [0 .9 1 .05], 'BackgroundColor', [.8 .8 .8]);

h1 = subplot(3,1,1);

plot(1:10);

subplot(3,1,2);

plot(1:100);

subplot(3,1,3);

plot(1:100);

You may need to adjust the 'Position' or other properties of the UICONTROL to fine-tune the appearance for your application.