Is there a way to put a field of text in an empty subplot location?

I have three plots displayed using subplot(2,2,N) where N takes on the values of 1, 2 or 3. This leaves the area of the 4th subplot empty. Is there a way to put text into that position? I do not want the text to be a figure legend for all three plots, but rather more arbitrary text. I tried to use " title = 'text' " or " xlabel = 'text' " without any sort of actual plot command, but I still see x/y axes with my text in the appropriate location.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

If you subplot(2,2,4) then you can text() things into existence there.

You could also consider using subplot(2,2,4) to create an axes, then getting its OuterPosition property, then deleting the axes, and then creating a uicontrol('style','text') in that position.

[David Morgan]

Thanks. The first idea works nicely after setting the plot's visibility to 'off'.