MATLAB: How to place a title on top of a subplot, as a part of the figure, in MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)

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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.

Best Answer

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.
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