Put text onto a canvas

Hey, I'm very new to matlab, so please bear with me. I'm simply trying to add text to a canvas. I do not have that image toolbox things or whatever, but i'd like to simply display some text. How would I do this. I am only using a canvas object so text(x,y,'string') does now work. Would like to use something similar to the .draw() paradigm. I would not like to use the header/footer things on the canvas either, as I'm looking to make this text dynamic.

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

The only part of MATLAB that supports canvases is the Symbolic Toolbox. Are you trying to draw on a Java canvas? If so then use the drawText method on your Java canvas object.

[Henry Metro]

Sorry, I am indeed using this toolbox, and cannot seem to find any sort of convenient method, and I don't know enough about matlab right now to be able to code this from scratch.

[Walter Roberson]

For the Symbolic Toolbox, see http://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/annotation.html plot::Text2D or plot::Text3D