GUIDE edit text

I am using an edit text control in guide with a preset string defined. When I run the figure, clicking inside the edit box does not clear the preset string - I must manually backspace over it. Is there a property associated with an edit text control that would automatically erase any text in the control or do I have to use a callback? If the latter, which callback function do I use? Thanks.

Answer 1

[Jan]

You need to access the underlying Java callbacks. But they are undocumented and can be change in a future Matlab release: See Undocumented: uicontrol-callbacks

I assume, it is the FocusGainedCallback.

[Leor Greenberger]

Thanks Jan. Seems silly to me this wouldn't be documented, though. I would have imagined this would be a common thing to do: set initial/default values in the edit text control and them to be easily changed (without having to manually backspacing over it).