How can I turn on the vertical scroll bar on a multi-line static textbox object?

When I want to display static text that exceeds the size of the textbox, MATLAB will cut the text without providing a scroll bar as in the case with the edit text box. I need a way to force the static textbox to have a default vertical scroll bar so the user of my GUI will be able to scroll through the text box to read my text.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The ability to have a vertical scroll bar on a multi-line textbox is not available in MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1).

To work around this issue, you can use a editbox where the "Min" and "Max" properties are such that "Max - Min > 1".

h = uicontrol('Style','edit','Position',[10 10 150 50],...

      'min',0,'max',2,'enable','inactive'); % create a listbox object

str = {['Since its founding in 1984, MathWorks has become the leading ',... 

   'global provider of technical computing and model-based design ',...

'software. Headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts, MathWorks ',...

'currently employs more than 1,000 people worldwide. ']};

set(h,'String',str) % display the string