Pull String out of Edit Text without user hitting enter

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Michael
Michael 2011-6-7
评论： Bhushan N 2016-12-1
Hi,
I am building a GUI with an EditText box and I want to pull the String out of it in my program, essentially as follows:
s = get(handles.edittext, 'String');
However, I want to get whatever the user currently has typed in there, which appears only to update after the user hits enter, etc.
I have tried updating the edittext box programmatically by calling its callback, but it still does not give the currently typed String (it gives the prior-updated string). Example:
edittext_Callback(handles.edittext, [], handles);
I have also tried updating the focus using the 'uicontrol' function. Example:
uicontrol(handles.edittext);
But again, it only gives the string that was in the box when the user caused it to update.
I am at a loss. Is there any way to snag what the user currently has typed in the EditText without the user having to cause it to update manually?

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Matt Fig
Matt Fig 2011-6-7
The only way I know to do this (that doesn't involve Java), is to capture the user's input using the keypressfcn. As the user types, store the string using the keypressfcn and concatenation, then if the user does hit return clear the stored variable from the callback.
Here is a small example. You may want to add more checks, but I tried to cover enough to make it functional.
function [] = gui_keypress()
% Typing in the editbox puts the string in a textbox.
S.fh = figure('units','pixels',...
'position',[500 500 200 100],...
'menubar','none',...
'name','keypress',...
'numbertitle','off',...
'resize','off');
S.ed = uicontrol('style','edit',...
'unit','pix',...
'position',[10 10 180 30],...
'fontsize',14,...
'callback',@ed_call,...
'keypressfcn',@ed_kpfcn);
S.tx = uicontrol('style','text',...
'units','pix',...
'position',[10 60 180 30]);
S.STR = [];
guidata(S.fh,S);
uicontrol(S.ed)
function [] = ed_call(H,E)
% Callback for editbox.
S = guidata(gcbf); % Get the structure.
set(S.tx,'str',get(S.ed,'string'));
S.STR = [];
guidata(gcbf,S)
function [] = ed_kpfcn(H,E)
% Keypressfcn for editbox
S = guidata(gcbf); % Get the structure.
if strcmp(E.Key,'backspace')
S.STR = S.STR(1:end-1);
elseif isempty(E.Character)
return
else
S.STR = [S.STR E.Character];
end
set(S.tx,'string',S.STR)
guidata(gcbf,S)
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Matt Fig
Matt Fig 2011-6-7
I changed the engine to make it more robust than my first post...

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Jim Hokanson
Jim Hokanson 2013-4-1
Here's another approach involving changing control focus.
Here's some relevant documentation, with summaries for 2013a:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uicontrol.html
edit text boxes don't update their strings until you click somewhere else, press enter (single line) or ctl+enter (multiline)
huh?
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uicontrol_props.html
for multiline editable text boxes, the string property is set when the control loses focus
oh!
With some help from the always helpful Jan:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/26951
My approach involves setting the focus to a small text box and then setting the focus back. I haven't played with the extent to which the static text box needs to be visible.
uicontrol(obj.h.static__busy_status) %Set focus to another control
uicontrol(obj.h.edit__cmd_window) %Set it back
get(obj.h.edit__cmd_window,'String') %Returns updated string
For me with 2013a the focus switch is imperceptible, returning the cursor to where I was typing without any noticeable blinking.
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Bhushan N
Bhushan N 2016-12-1
Jim,
This kind of works cause when the focus returns to edit text box, it selects all the text. So if you are typing like normal it keeps replacing the text.
Bhushan

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Pooya89
Pooya89 2013-11-17
Using Yair's FingJObj and by accessing the java properties it is possible: (As he explains in this example)
jEditbox = findjobj(hEditbox); % get java object
set(jEditbox, 'KeyPressedCallback', @Key_Press);
function Key_Press(jEditbox, eventData)
char(jEditbox.getText)
end

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