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popup & edit -> all in one

Jerzy Nowakowski — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:05:02 -0400

Is it possible to obtain a popup-menu, with editable values?
The user selects the popup string, but later has a
possibility to edit it...

Re: popup & edit -> all in one

Ian Clarkson — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:18:01 -0400

"Jerzy Nowakowski" <j.nowakowski@unina.it> wrote in message
<g6uu5e$mv1$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Is it possible to obtain a popup-menu, with editable values?
> The user selects the popup string, but later has a
> possibility to edit it...

you could try something around this:

>> fig=figure(1);
>> uicontrol(fig,'Style','edit','String','Hello')

i'm not sure what you mean by the user "selects a popup
string", but it sounds like you want some GUI
functionality... this a two-liner that makes a figure and
adds an editable text box to it.

Re: popup & edit -> all in one

roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:02:57 -0400

In article <g6uu5e$mv1$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
Jerzy Nowakowski <j.nowakowski@unina.it> wrote:
>Is it possible to obtain a popup-menu, with editable values?
>The user selects the popup string, but later has a
>possibility to edit it...

If you stick to the Matlab provided functions, you need to
use multiple controls for this; it is fairly easy with a
pop-up and an edit box and a couple of small callbacks.

If, though, it is important to you that this is visually only
a single control, then if you can do it at all, you would have
to work at the Java level.
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