I try to use the:
function moveptr(hAx, x, y)

However I get the following error

Undefined function ‘getpos’ for input arguments of type
‘matlab.graphics.axis.Axes’.

How Can I solve this issue?

@Tal – the article is 6 years old, and overobj2 itself is several years older than that, way before HG2 was even contemplated. If anything, I’m surprised that it worked well all the way till now. Anyway, I’ve updated the code for HG2, although (alas) not for the uitab issue that you mentioned. I’ll leave that as an exercise to the reader… 🙂

fig = get(0,'PointerWindow'); 

should be replaced with:

fig = matlab.ui.internal.getPointerWindow(); 

2. It fails when the desired object is a uitab child – the position is referred to relative to the figure object and not the actual parent. It would be nice if the function would convert the object position to figure units.

Best regards,
Tal.

@David – changing the component cursor works well for me. In fact, the default JPasswordField cursor is the text cursor, so in theory you don’t need to set the cursor at all. So I suspect that there is something very specific on your system that causes this component to misbehave for some reason.

Yair,

Thank you for the timely reply. However, after adding your line of code, the cursor still will not change to a ‘text cursor’ shape. Might there be another solution? I am using R2014a.

@David –

jPasswordField.setCursor(java.awt.Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(java.awt.Cursor.TEXT_CURSOR));

In the following example, my cursor pointer will not seem to change from the ‘default cursor’ shape to the ‘text cursor’ shape whenever I hover my cursor over the Password field edit box (that is, inside the bounds of the Password field box). How can I get my cursor to change to a ‘text cursor’ shape inside the bounds of the password field box?

figure1 = figure
jPasswordField = javax.swing.JPasswordField;
[jhPasswordField, hContainer] = javacomponent(jPasswordField, [20 20 100 40], figure1);

@Chad – you would need to modify the Cursor property (or using the setCursor accessor method) of the various Java components that comprise the Matlab Desktop, as explained in other articles on this website (e.g. here and here).