How add multi line title to figure (not to plot)?

Hello, I have a task to create figure to display the image with title of two rows: the image name as a first row and the second row the statistics “mean = …, max = …., min = …| as second rows. i know create multi line title for plot.

plot(x,y)
title({'first row','Second row'})

but how create two row title for figure? i am trying

    figure('Name',{'first row','Second row'})

but get error: Error using figure While setting the 'Name' property of 'Figure': Value must be a string.

Thanks for help

Answer 1

[dpb]

Unsupported feature, sorry. Find another task...or change assignor's expectations. :)

[Maxim Roshior]

Hi, thanks. i think you right, because i am try a lot of things, but not get results. May be it is my mistake and i need to use only title function.

[dpb]

It's inherent in the underlying OS figure primitives; they don't support that feature in the title. If you'll look at figure properties there's no 'Interpreter' property so that \n isn't recognized and is stripped/ converted to space. Try

>> s=sprintf('%s\n%s','first row','Second row')
s =
first row
Second row
>> 
>> figure('Name',s)
>> ft=get(1,'name')
ft =
first row
>>

Note there's only one line displayed on retrieval as opposed to two that were sent. Prove it:

>> double(ft)
ans =
 102   105   114   115   116    32   114   111   119
>>

'32' is blank, not '\n'

You're beating a dead horse here. Sometimes you just can't do anything you want no matter how hard you try.

Answer 2

[Jan]

The name of the figure appears in the border of the window. There is only space for a single line. Do you want to the figure title to appear inside the window? This is possible:

figure;
AxesH = axes('Units', 'normalized', 'Position', [0,0,1,1], 'Visible', 'off');
text(0.5, 1, {'First line', 'second line'}, 'Parent', AxesH, ...
     'HorizontalAlignment', 'center', 'VerticalAlignment', 'top');