Setting focus in AppDesigner
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I'm setting a TextArea object to be editable with a menu selection to allow a field to be updated by the user.
The callaback to do so works fine but it is annoying to have to manually select the text area to get it to have focus and then do the edits.
Is there any way programmatically for the menu callback function to shift focus to the textarea object?
This is in an AppDesigner application.
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Adam Danz
on 5 Apr 2022
> Is there any way programmatically for the menu callback function to shift focus to the textarea object?
Yes, starting in MATLAB R2022a.
Use the new focus(c) function to set focus to a ui component c. This MATLAB release also provides additional resources to control the focus order of ui components in AppDesigner.
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Kevin Holly
on 29 Sep 2021
I found this question here: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/353504-give-focus-to-an-edit-field
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Sean de Wolski
on 3 Jan 2022
You may be interested in the R2022a prerelease. And while you're looking at it, you may be interested in typing >>doc focus
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