MATLAB: How to add a textbox next to a plot

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I am trying to add a textbox outside the axes and the plot and next to it indicating some data in the graph. The annotation command requires me to set the location but I am unable to set the location outside the axes.

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According to the documentation annotation objects apparently must be within the current figure. However text objects do not (although you place them with respect to the figure coordinates).

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MATLAB: Creating Edit Box without using GUIDE

This is a start

    fh = figure;
    ebh =  uicontrol( fh, 'Style', 'edit' )

next step is

    doc uicontrol

Documentation says:

Uicontrol Properties Describe user interface control (uicontrol) propert

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Position position rectangle

Size and location of uicontrol. The rectangle defined by this property specifies the size and location of the control within the parent figure window, uipanel, or uibuttongroup. Specify Position as [left bottom width height] left and bottom are the distance from the lower-left corner of the parent object to the lower-left corner of the uicontrol object. width and height are the dimensions of the uicontrol rectangle. All measurements are in units specified by the Units property.

MATLAB: Rotate annotation textbox

I don't know how to do it with an annotation, but here is a way to do it with the text() function, using the XLim and YLim properties of the plots (without needing to know the ranges of the x and y data beforehand):

figure
plot(1:10)
xlim=get(gca,'XLim');
ylim=get(gca,'YLim');
ht = text(0.5*xlim(1)+0.5*xlim(2),0.6*ylim(1)+0.4*ylim(2),'My text');
set(ht,'Rotation',45)
set(ht,'FontSize',18)

In the text command, make sure that the fractions add up to 1 for both the x and y positions, and then it is easy to steer the text to where you want it, and make it consistent across figures.

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