function hout=suptitle(str) %SUPTITLE puts a title above all subplots. % % SUPTITLE('text') adds text to the top of the figure % above all subplots (a "super title"). Use this function % after all subplot commands. % % SUPTITLE is a helper function for yeastdemo. % Copyright 2003-2010 The MathWorks, Inc. % Warning: If the figure or axis units are non-default, this % will break. % Parameters used to position the supertitle. % Amount of the figure window devoted to subplots plotregion = .92; % Y position of title in normalized coordinates titleypos = .95; % Fontsize for supertitle fs = get(gcf,'defaultaxesfontsize') - 2; % Fudge factor to adjust y spacing between subplots fudge=1; haold = gca; figunits = get(gcf,'units'); % Get the (approximate) difference between full height (plot + title % + xlabel) and bounding rectangle. if (~strcmp(figunits,'pixels')), set(gcf,'units','pixels'); pos = get(gcf,'position'); set(gcf,'units',figunits); else pos = get(gcf,'position'); end ff = (fs-4)*1.27*5/pos(4)*fudge; % The 5 here reflects about 3 characters of height below % an axis and 2 above. 1.27 is pixels per point. % Determine the bounding rectangle for all the plots % h = findobj('Type','axes'); % findobj is a 4.2 thing.. if you don't have 4.2 comment out % the next line and uncomment the following block. h = findobj(gcf,'Type','axes'); % Change suggested by Stacy J. Hills max_y=0; min_y=1; oldtitle = NaN; numAxes = length(h); thePositions = zeros(numAxes,4); for i=1:numAxes pos=get(h(i),'pos'); thePositions(i,:) = pos; if (~strcmp(get(h(i),'Tag'),'suptitle')), if (pos(2) < min_y) min_y=pos(2)-ff/5*3; end; if (pos(4)+pos(2) > max_y) max_y=pos(4)+pos(2)+ff/5*2; end; else oldtitle = h(i); end end if max_y > plotregion, scale = (plotregion-min_y)/(max_y-min_y); for i=1:numAxes pos = thePositions(i,:); pos(2) = (pos(2)-min_y)*scale+min_y; pos(4) = pos(4)*scale-(1-scale)*ff/5*3; set(h(i),'position',pos); end end np = get(gcf,'nextplot'); set(gcf,'nextplot','add'); if ishghandle(oldtitle) delete(oldtitle); end axes('pos',[0 1 1 1],'visible','off','Tag','suptitle'); ht=text(.5,titleypos-1,str);set(ht,'horizontalalignment','center','fontsize',fs); set(gcf,'nextplot',np); axes(haold); %#ok if nargout, hout=ht; end