URGENT! How to use Edit Text (Enable, 'Inactive') or List Box as a display

Hi everybody!!

I have to set an edit text area enabled as inactive as a display:

I have my statistics about data I read in a previous figure and I have to display them in this space when I push on a button or I choose a voice from a popup menu. I know how to set handles, but every time I tried, an error said to me that it was impossible to show multiline elements in an edit text, but I saw it is possible!!!

I have to show something like

"The max value in this statistic is ( value )

The min value in this statistic is ( value )

The mean value is equal to ( value )

...

...

..."

In the same space I'd like to publish a sort of table made by arrays, but I'd like that the entire row is user selectable... Can I set the same Edit Text or should choose a ListBox ? And if I have to choose a ListBox, how can I fill it???

[Walter Roberson]

Oh, please, not everything can be urgent!

[Jethro]

Only this evening, 'cause I have to deliver my work tomorrow and people with me caused some problems -.-''

[Walter Roberson]

Urgent is when the nuclear reactor containment system is about to collapse. Or when I've run out of chocolate.

[Jethro]

This is like your chocolate for me, now, because my university career dipends on it lol!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You have to set the Max property of the control to be greater than 1.

It is not simple to select a row of an edit box and figure out which row you have selected. Listbox would be easier that way, or consider a uitable as that has a CellSelectionCallback property.

Answer 2

[Jethro]

How can I put in a ListBox some datas I have in a var??

And to retrieve the selected line I have to use a switch function or is it "automatic"???

[Walter Roberson]

str2num() or sprintf() in order to construct a cell array of strings, which you then set as the String property of the listbox uicontrol.

To retrieve the selected line:

strs = get(TheHandle, 'String');

thisstr = strs{get(TheHandle, 'Value'));

Except that you need to add a layer of error checking in case the value property is [] .