textbp: text with legend-style "best" placement

automatically locates text annotation to minimize figure obscuration

Description

Sometimes the exact location of some text annotation doesn't matter. This works just like TEXT (including the property calls) except one does not specify an X,Y location. The subroutine TSCAN (modified from the Matlab LSCAN routine) automatically places the text, with a preference for the bottom/left corner.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a)
• Other requirements: none

[Tak Kunihiro]

This is a code that I was looking for. Since a command "legend" has similar functionality I even though that there might be a command already. I have been using "legend" to put all information in the plot, which was pain in the neck. Now I can make a plot with all experimental parameters.

[Bob Solimeno]

Beautiful! This code does exactly what I want to achieve. A very nice, simple substiture for the MATLAB text command where hands-off annotation is desired!

[Scott Foster]

This is a great bit of code for what it does. Very easy to use, and exactly what I was looking for.

[chen]

 

[Alonso]

 

[K E]

Useful. Should be a Matlab builtin.

[Jamal Said]

A problem: the repeated using of the function - in its simplest form - causes the overall added texts to be shifted diagonally.

[Faiz M]

 

[Adrien]

Problem : it does not seem to work with the function "hist". A solution ?

[James]

I can't figure out how to use this code. Does this need to be placed in each .m file I wish to use the textbp function in?

[Peter Mao]

Adrien -- the trick is to rejigger TSCAN so it goes from top-left to bottom-right. I'll do that if I can find some time. It's been a long time since I looked at the code!

[Peter Mao]

Jamal -- As I recall, that's related to a problem that occurs when translating between figure and axis normalized coordinates. I took it up w/ Mathworks years ago, with no satisfactory resolution, so there it stands.