Comments on: Rich Matlab editbox contents

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:17:31 +0000

@Andrew - only a subset of CSS is processed correctly by Swing (which is used for Matlab's controls). I showed a simple example of using CSS styles in the EditorKit section of the article, but note that many style directives are simply ignored. The Font tag may be deprecated but it works great...Re setText(), remember that it sets the entire text, so you must preserve the previous hyper-text tags and styles when you add new lines. There's no magic in there, recheck your code.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:14:35 +0000

Hi Yair,
I’m creating a message log on an application I’m working on. I appreciate your tutorial on how to do this using HTML tags. I saw on the w3school website that the HTML “font” tag has been depricated. It says to use style tags instead. I tried modifying your logMessage function to use styles instead of the depricated tags. When I do this, it only works for the most recent line. When I looked closer, it appeared that either “setText” or “getText” is removing a bunch of the HTML tags I put in. As a result, all the previous lines show up unformatted. Please let me know your thoughts.
Thanks!
~Andrew

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:25:59 +0000

@Jorge – unfortunately, not all CSS style formattings are supported

By: Jorge

Jorge — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:30:04 +0000

htmlStr contains, but it doesnt show: *div style=”text-decoration: overline”+text*/div+….* means

By: Jorge

Jorge — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:26:49 +0000

Nice article with useful information. But i have problem. I try overline text, but it doesnt work.

htmlStr = ['Matlab'];
jEditbox.setText(htmlStr)

Is there any change, how to make overline text ?

Thank you for answer

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:53:25 +0000

@Noushin - of course; HTML is not multi-line by default, as you will notice if you prepare a multi-line HTML file and load it in your browser. To separate lines, you can use the HTML

or
tags. The W3Schools website is a good reference & tutorial for HTML and related technologies.

By: Noushin

Noushin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:05:35 +0000

Hi
Thank you very much for the useful info. In my GUI, I first read a long string from an editbox (multiple lines) and then I’d like to change the font color of a portion of this text and display it in the same editbox. I’m not familiar with HTML coding but that’s what I did using your example above:

hEditbox=handles.my_editbox;
jScrollPane = findjobj(hEditbox);
jViewPort = jScrollPane.getViewport;
jEditbox = jViewPort.getComponent(0);
jEditbox.setEditorKit(javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit);
htmlStr = [str_part1,'', str_part2,'', str_part3);
jEditbox.setText(htmlStr);

the formatted string is displayed in the editbox however, it is no longer divided nicely between multiple lines! There is a very long first line where most of the string is out of the right margin. I was wondering is there is another setting that I need to tune for this to be properly displayed?

I appreciate your help, Noushin

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:05:40 +0000

Regular Matlab uicontrols do not support syntax hiliting – you need to use one of the controls I mentioned in http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/syntax-highlighted-labels-panels/

By: Camilo

Camilo — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:55:47 +0000

Hello,
it’s possible to set this property (Matlab Syntax) in a uicontrol type text?
thanks.

Thank you!

Best regards

Camilo

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:06:16 +0000

@Youlian and any other reader interested in syntax highlighting – I posted an expanded article about this topic in http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/syntax-highlighted-labels-panels/