How to add a superscript to a uicontrol?

Question

Armindo on 21 Feb 2016

Commented: Walter Roberson on 22 Feb 2016

Can anyone explain me why this dont work (superscript)?

        r10 = uicontrol(bg,'Style','radiobutton',...
            'String',sprintf('New %g^{n}',2),...
            'Position',[0 0 100 30],...

thanks

Answer 1

Walter Roberson on 21 Feb 2016

sprintf('<HTML>New %g<SUP>n</SUP>',2)

Uicontrol have never supported tex or latex. Some uicontrol support HTML.

Stephen23 on 22 Feb 2016

Edited: Stephen23 on 22 Feb 2016

Armindo's "Answer" moved here:

Hi thank you for the asware.

I do that in a radiobutton but how to do it in a uicontrol text? Because dont seems to work.

Walter Roberson on 22 Feb 2016

styles text and edit do not support HTML and do not support superscripts.

You can use another style such as pushbutton, possibly setting the 'enable' property to 'off' (but that might dim the text).

To get any further than this, you would need to go in at the Java level, possibly replacing the Java Swing component that underlies the uicontrol.