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editInteraction

Edit text interaction

Since R2021b

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    Description

    An edit interaction allows you to select text within a figure and edit that text. To enable editing, set the Interactions property of the text to a editInteraction object. This interaction is on by default for title, subtitle, xlabel, ylabel, and zlabel text objects for axes, geoaxes, polaraxes.

    Creation

    Syntax

    e = editInteraction

    Description

    e = editInteraction creates an edit interaction object which enables you to edit text by clicking or tapping a text object. To enable interactive editing, set the Interactions property of the text to the object returned by this function.

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    Examples

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    Open Live Script

    Create a surface plot. Add text to the plot and assign the text object to t. Add edit interactions to the Interactions property of t. Click the text to edit.

    surf(peaks)
t = text(0,55,5,"My Plot");
t.Interactions = editInteraction;

    Figure contains an axes object. The axes object contains 2 objects of type surface, text.

    Version History

    Introduced in R2021b

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