Bullets in MATLAB GUIs

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Mtlb Usr on 18 Feb 2011

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I would like to know if there is in MATLAB some uiobject to implement the functionality of bullets.

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Matt Tearle on 18 Feb 2011

But what (if anything) do you want the bullets to *do*? Or are you just looking for output display? In other words, would a text box suffice, if you could format the text to display a bulleted list?

Mtlb Usr on 18 Feb 2011

I'm just looking for output display.

Yes, I could give a format to one uicontrol with a text style, would be correct! But I don't know how I can do it.

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Matt Tearle on 18 Feb 2011

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It's not great (see Walter's answer for more discussion), but this basically works:

x = {'abc';'defg';'hijkl';'mn'};
y = regexprep(x,'(.*)',[char(183),' $1']);
figure
uicontrol('style','text','position',[100,100,100,100],'string',y,'fontsize',12)

I'm assuming you have a cell array of text, one cell per bullet point.

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Mtlb Usr on 18 Feb 2011

Hi Matt,

Yes u are right.

Ok, I think that with your purpose I will can do it. For this reason, I'm going to accept this answer but If I would go farther I would see the Walter's discussion.

thanks

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Matt Tearle on 18 Feb 2011

Walter, you're right. I can never keep track of which string functions work with cell arrays. (Plus who doesn't love the chance to mess with regular expressions!)

Mtlb Usr, glad this works for you. Another possibility would be to hack it by making an axes instead of a text box, and plotting a marker, followed by a text annotation. Messy, but I think it would work.

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