Set title to left corner doesnt work

[bat_boy]

Hi folks!

I'd like to set the horizontal postition of the title in my plot to the left corner.
When I plot and do this:

title("This is my awesome title");
yl = get (gca (), 'title');
get(get(gca()).title).horizontalalignment
set (yl, 'horizontalalignment', 'center');
get(get(gca()).title).horizontalalignment
set (yl, 'horizontalalignment', 'left');
get(get(gca()).title).horizontalalignment

the output is

ans = left
ans = center
ans = left

So it seems that the value is set to "left" as default. Even setting it to "center" and to "left" afterwards doesnt have any effetct, the title remains in the center. Do I miss something here?

Thanks!
David

[Ben Abbott]

On Aug 12, 2009, at 7:46 AM, bat_boy wrote:

> Hi folks!
>
> I'd like to set the horizontal postition of the title in my plot to  
> the left
> corner.
> When I plot and do this:
>
> title("This is my awesome title");
> yl = get (gca (), 'title');
> get(get(gca()).title).horizontalalignment
> set (yl, 'horizontalalignment', 'center');
> get(get(gca()).title).horizontalalignment
> set (yl, 'horizontalalignment', 'left');
> get(get(gca()).title).horizontalalignment
>
> the output is
>
> ans = left
> ans = center
> ans = left
>
> So it seems that the value is set to "left" as default. Even setting  
> it to
> "center" and to "left" afterwards doesnt have any effetct, the title  
> remains
> in the center. Do I miss something here?
>
> Thanks!
> David

Hi David,

The functionality you're looking for is not yet supported by Octave.

As a work around you can try ...

text (0, 1.05, "This is my left aligned title", "horizontalalignment",  
"left", "units", "normalized")

Ben



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[bat_boy]

Hi Ben!

THANKS SO MUCH!!!
That's exactly what I was looking for :) :) :)

Cheers, David

Ben Abbott wrote:

On Aug 12, 2009, at 7:46 AM, bat_boy wrote:

> Hi folks!
>
> I'd like to set the horizontal postition of the title in my plot to  
> the left
> corner.
> When I plot and do this:
>
> title("This is my awesome title");
> yl = get (gca (), 'title');
> get(get(gca()).title).horizontalalignment
> set (yl, 'horizontalalignment', 'center');
> get(get(gca()).title).horizontalalignment
> set (yl, 'horizontalalignment', 'left');
> get(get(gca()).title).horizontalalignment
>
> the output is
>
> ans = left
> ans = center
> ans = left
>
> So it seems that the value is set to "left" as default. Even setting  
> it to
> "center" and to "left" afterwards doesnt have any effetct, the title  
> remains
> in the center. Do I miss something here?
>
> Thanks!
> David

Hi David,

The functionality you're looking for is not yet supported by Octave.

As a work around you can try ...

text (0, 1.05, "This is my left aligned title", "horizontalalignment",  
"left", "units", "normalized")

Ben



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