If I am understanding you correctly, that you want the automatic figure numbering, then you can do this:
figure
fn = get(gcf,'Number');
set(gcf,'Name',sprintf('%d',fn),'NumberTitle','off')
You can embed that second line into the last one, if you want:
figure
set(gcf,'Name',sprintf('%d',get(gcf,'Number')),'NumberTitle','off')
You could also get clever and anticipate the current figure number from the prior figure (if there is one), and do it all in one line:
figure('Name',sprintf('%d',get(gcf,'Number')+1),'NumberTitle','off')
But that is getting a little hazardous in assuming a prior figure, the fact that none of the prior ones were deleted, etc. So, I would stick with one of the other versions.
