Chaning Background color of disabled text area

Just wondering if there is a way to change the background color of a text area when the editable property is set to 'off'

When the control is Enabled and Editable, the background changes as expected but when set to uneditable, the background turns grey regardless of background color specified.

I am trying create an output on a GUI similar to the command window in the MatLAB GUI but have a different background color. I also add to it providing information as to what the code is doing and don't want user input in this text area. If there is a better control for this rahther than Text Area I could switch

Any suggestions would be great.

[David Friesen]

I found the solution to this at:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/564500-enable-disable-edittext-in-app-designer

Answer 1

[Kennedy Kirkhope]

I am actually using the App Designed so I would assume that is closer to GUIDE.

I am actually using a TextArea but once created, in the startupFcn(app) function I set the following:

app.Progress.Editable = 'off';
app.Progress.BackgroundColor = [0,0,0];
app.Progress.Enable = 'on';

But I see the background as grey. If I change the Editable to 'on' then it appears black as intended.

I tried reordering these tree commands but no such luck.

I was about to try obtaining a handle to the graphic object and seeing if that would allow me to override the default colour when the editiable flag is set 'off'

Any thoughts?

[RITAM BASU]

same problem faced with TextArea in App designer.

Have you found a way out?

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

Are you developing this using App Designer, GUIDE, or programmatically?

If App Designer, do you want to use a uitextarea instead of a uieditfield?

For GUIDE, does your uicontrol have Style 'edit' or 'text'?