Monitor key press while editing text description in figure

Hi everybody,

In my figure, I am inserting a text, which is editable after clicking on it:

TextObject = text(0.5,0.5, 'Please edit this text', 'ButtonDownFcn', @ClickActionText)

function ClickActionText(Source, Event)

    fprintf('Text clicked!\n')
    set(Source, 'Editing', 'on');

end

Now, I want to monitor the keys pressed during editing the textbox. Actually, I'd like to exit the editing mode by pressing enter - instead of clicking somewhere else in the figure or pressing ESC.

Answer 1

[Jan]

This is not possible with the 'Editing=on' method. Use an edit field instead.

[Sven Holtje]

Thanks for the quick response. I was trying out a lot of different stuff, and was already suspecting that this might not be possible at all.

Unfortunately an "edit field" UI component is missing functionaility and properties of the "text" description, and is therefore no alternative.