borders around text boxes in GUI
chirantan mukhopadhyay
text box in a GUI? For example, the background color for a text box I have
is white, and I want a black border around that. Thanks.
Chirantan
Jordan Rosenthal
Actually there is no easy way to do this that I know about. Here's a couple
of ideas:
1) Create another text box underneath the one you have that is slightly
larger and of a different color
2) Create an axis that surrounds the text with something like:
axes('color','none','linewidth',2','box','on', ...
'xcolor','b','ycolor','b','xtick',[],'ytick',[]);
3) If the text is within an axis, draw a patch object underneath it.
To get the sizes right, you will need to use the 'Position' property of the
text and/or perhaps the 'Extent' property.
Hope that helped,
Jordan
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1) create a FRAME with an area slightly larger (say by <dfr>) than the text
box
fgui = uicontrol;
set(fgui,'style','frame');
set(fgui,'position',[x-dfr y-dfr x+bsx+2*dfr
y+bsy+2*dfr],'foregroundcolor',[0 0 0]);
2) create the TEXT box at pos x/y x+bsx y+bsy
tgui = uicontrol;
set(tgui,'style','text');
set(tgui,'position',[x y bsx bsy],... < anything else > ...);
the above <xgui> statements can be merged.
note: it is important that you set the FRAME first! otherwise your text will
be covered (currently, <backgroundcolor> does not accept something like
<none>).
hth
us
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set(fgui,'position',[x-dfr y-dfr x+bsx+2*dfr
y+bsy+2*dfr],'foregroundcolor',[0 0 0]);
should read
set(fgui,'position',[x-dfr y-dfr bsx+2*dfr bsy+2*dfr],'foregroundcolor',[0 0
0]);
as <bsx/y> denote the length of the object.
us