how can I put a title on the colorbar in matlab output?

Question

The output of my program is an area plot and there is a title of the figure But I want to put a title on the colorbar also. i have searched many functions but I am not able to do this. can anyone help me ??

Answer 1

This is relatively easy to do using the handle output from colorbar:

imagesc(randn(10));
h = colorbar;
title(h,'my colorbar')

Answer 2

In addition to Pete's excellent answer, if you want a label on the side of the colorbar use this:

[X,Y,Z] = peaks;
figure;
contourf(X,Y,Z,20);
h = colorbar;
ylabel(h,'Side colorbar label');