title string on vertical colorbar

I want to put a colorbar to the right of a plot; fortunately, MATLAB wants to do that too, so a plain call to colorbar works. However, I'd also like to put a readable title on the colorbar to identify the plotted variable & its units. I tried this

h = colorbar;
set(get(h,'title'),'string','ISCCP Daytime Sc Amount (%)');

MATLAB wants to put this above the colorbar (!) where it runs into the plot title. I can rotate the text

h = colorbar;
set(get(h,'title'),'string','ISCCP Daytime Sc Amount (%)','Rotation',90.0);

but it's still centered up above the vertical colorbar. Trying to calculate a position for it in colorbar-relative coordinates is a real pain. Is there another way to correctly position this metadata alongside the colorbar?

[KEVIIN CHRISTOPHER CORDOVIZ]

Simple Solution for this.

h = colorbar;
set(get(h,'label'),'string','ISCCP Daytime Sc Amount (%)');

That way, it will no longer be on top of the colorbar but beside it. :)

Answer 1

[Patrick Kalita]

This is kind of hack, but how about this:

h = colorbar;
ylabel(h, 'foo')

[Igor]

simplicity is the key of prosperity! perfect answer. good job Patrick

[Suene]

great

[noone]

This is genius!!!

[Roy Goodman]

This answer is great, but I have one issue.

I have set all labeling of figures to default to using latex as the intepreter. When I follow this example the ylabel does not show up in latex unlesss I do

ylabel(h, 'foo', 'intepreter', 'latex');

I don't want to have to do this manually, so I added

set(groot,'DefaultColorbarYLabelInterpreter','latex')

to my startup.m file. This returns an error

Error using matlab.ui.Root/set

There is no YLabelInterpreter property on the ColorBar class.

How do I set the default then, I know that there is a ColorbarTickLabelInterpreter class.

[Daniyal Altaf Baloch]

You saved us. Good answer

[Brice Arthur Azangue]

thanks for this code

Answer 2

[Sara Soufsaf]

To update Patrick Kalita's answer

h = colorbar;
title(h, 'foo')