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user001
user001

Reputation: 1848

matlab: variable horizontal alignment of text

Text objects in MATLAB contain a horizontal alignment property, which can be assigned a value of left, center, or right. Attempts to assign this property by a vector of alignments of equal length to the vectors of strings and coordinates fails to give the intended behavior.

For instance, a statement of the form :

text([1,1,1]/4,[1,2,3]/4,{'ABC';'BCD';'CDE'})

displays the contents of a length-3 cell array of char objects at the X- and Y-coordinates specified by length-3 double arrays. However, attempting to introduce a length-3 cell array of char objects for independent specification of the horizontal alignment of each text element is syntactically invalid;

e.g.,

text([1,1,1]/4,[1,2,3]/4,{'ABC';'BCD';'CDE'},'HorizontalAlignment',{'left';'center';'right'})

My question concerns whether it is possible to specify the HorizontalAlignment property of MATLAB text objects in a variable manner without resorting to constructs explicitly involving loops and conditionals.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1980

Answers (1)

Notlikethat
Notlikethat

Reputation: 20914

You can't assign multiple property values upon creation, but once you have a vector of handles, you can use the many-to-many form of set() like so:

h = text([1,1,1]/4, [1,2,3]/4, {'ABC';'BCD';'CDE'});
set(h, {'HorizontalAlignment'}, {'left';'center';'right'});

The value array has one row per object, one column per property.

Upvotes: 2

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