How to create an uicontrol with selectable but non-editable text.

I want to allow user copy a text (or it's part) into clipboard in usual manner (selecting by mouse and pressing Ctrl-C). How to make it? A 'text' style uicontrol doesn't permit selection. Оn the other hand, an 'edit' style permits selection and copying to clipbord but also allows editing what is not desirable.

Answer 1

[bbb_bbb]

found "simple" solution:

javatxt = findjobj(editui); 
javatxt.Editable=0;

where editui - an 'edit' style uicontrol,

findjobj - a function that Find java objects contained within a specified java container or Matlab GUI handle

[Ameer Hamza]

Worth mentioning that findjobj is not a MATLAB built-in function. It is available FEX::findjobj here.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Hack the Java objects underlying the uicontrol.

But first experiment with setting the uicontrol enable property to 'disable'. The result is a uicontrol that can still scroll but not be edited. I do not recall whether it is selectable.

[bbb_bbb]

set(textui, 'Enable', 'off') - gives non-selectable text.

[Dennis]

If it is okay to copy the entire text you could create a ButtonDownFcn that copies the string to clipboard.

function copytxt (hobj,~)
      mystring=get(hObj,'String'); 
      clipboard('copy',mystring)
end