textwrap - Wrapped string matrix for given uicontrol

Syntax

Description

outstring = textwrap(h,instring) returns a wrapped string cell array, outstring, that fits inside the uicontrol with handle h. instring is a cell array, with each cell containing a single line of text. outstring is the wrapped string matrix in cell array format. Each cell of the input string is considered a paragraph.

outstring = textwrap(h,instring,columns) returns an outstring with each line wrapped at columns characters. Spaces are included in the character count.

[outstring,position] = textwrap(...) returns the recommended position of the uicontrol in the units of the uicontrol. position considers the extent of the multiline text in the x and y directions.

textwrap maintains the original line breaks in the input cell array and adds new ones. It can calculate uicontrol positions with any type of Units, including normalized units.

Tips

When programming a GUI, do not call copyobj or textwrap (which calls copyobj) inside a CreateFcn. The act of copying the uicontrol object fires the CreateFcn repeatedly, which raises a series of error messages after exceeding the root object's RecursionLimit property.

Examples

Place two text-wrapped strings in text uicontrols. The left one has a Position calculated by textwrap in Units of pixels; the right one's Position is calculated manually in Units of characters:

figure('Position',[560 528 350 250]);
% Make a text uicontrol to wrap in Units of Pixels
% Create it in Units of Pixels, 100 wide, 10 high
pos = [10 100 100 10];   
ht = uicontrol('Style','Text','Position',pos);
string = {'This is a string for the left text uicontrol.',...
          'to be wrapped in Units of Pixels,',...
          'with a position determined by TEXTWRAP.'};
% Wrap string, also returning a new position for ht
[outstring,newpos] = textwrap(ht,string) %#ok<NOPRT>

outstring = 
    'This is a string for'
    'the left text'
    'uicontrol.'
    'to be wrapped in'
    'Units of Pixels,'
    'with a position'
    'determined by'
    'TEXTWRAP.'

newpos =
    10   100    91   124

set(ht,'String',outstring,'Position',newpos)

% Make another text uicontrol to wrap to a column width of 15
colwidth = 15;
% Create it in Units of Pixels, 100 wide, 10 high
pos1 = [150 100 100 10]; 
ht1 = uicontrol('Style','Text','Position',pos1);
string1 = {'This is a string for the right text uicontrol.',...
          'to be wrapped in Units of Characters,',...
          'into lines 15 columns wide.'};
outstring1 = textwrap(ht1,string1,colwidth);
% Reset Units of ht1 to Characters to use the result
set(ht1,'Units','characters')
newpos1 = get(ht1,'Position'

newpos1 =
   29.8000    7.6154   20.0000    0.7692

% Set new Position in Characters to be specified colwidth
% with height the length of the outstring1 cell array + 1.
newpos1(3) = colwidth; 
newpos1(4) = length(outstring1)+1

newpos1 =
   29.8000    7.6154   15.0000   10.0000

set(ht1,'String',outstring1,'Position',newpos1)

See Also

align | uicontrol

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