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oro777
oro777

Reputation: 1110

MATLAB Edit Focus and Cursor Placement

I am using the uicontrol command to have focus on my edit object. After this command, the string inside the uicontrol is selected. How can I place the cursor after the last character ?

Here is my code.

H = figure;
E1 = uicontrol( 'Parent', H, 'Style', 'Edit', 'String', 'ABC', 'Units', 'Normalized', 'Position', [0.1,0,0.1,0.1] );
T1 = uicontrol( 'Parent', H, 'Style', 'Text', 'String', 'ABC', 'Units', 'Normalized', 'Position', [0.2,0,0.1,0.1] );
uicontrol( E1 )

Upvotes: 0

Views: 118

Answers (1)

Tommaso Belluzzo
Tommaso Belluzzo

Reputation: 23675

What you are attempting to do cannot be realized through pure Matlab code. You have to interact with the underlying Java components... and for this you require the non built-in function findjobj.

Here is an example:

len = numel(E1.String);
jEdit = findjobj(E1);

uicontrol(E1);
jEdit.setCaretPosition(len);
jEdit.setSelectionStart(len);
jEdit.setSelectionEnd(len);

Upvotes: 1

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