Comments on: Font selection components

By: Volkmar

Volkmar — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:07:20 +0000

Although uisetfont is a stock MATLAB UI for font selection, its output is not directly usable when creating new graphics/ui objects: Graphics objects do not accept the struct itself as a font specification (at least not in HG2). One needs to convert this struct into a list of key/value pairs to actually use it as font specifications. Something like this

 
fs = uisetfont;
keys    = fieldnames(fs);
values  = struct2cell(fs);
keyvals = [keys'; values'];
keyvals{:}

creates a key/value cell array, which can be inserted using colon expansion when font properties need to be specified.

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:08:41 +0000

In reply to Mikhail. @Mikhail - read my section on using a uicontrol - this is exactly what I did there.

By: Mikhail

Mikhail — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 08:02:11 +0000

Hey Yair, There is a listfonts command in MATLAB. I guess you can use its output to populate font selection dialog in your application.