app designer special characters

Hi, I am writing my first app designer applications, and would like to use special characters, such as Greek letters. In the title of a plot, I used the TeX notation of \xi_0 and it works just fine. However, in the label of a slider, that didn't work, and char(958), i.e. Unicode, and texlabel(...) didn't either. What can I do here?

[Sudarshan Kolar]

I understand that you want to use special characters as label for your slider in appdesigner.

In the appdesigner startupFcn, you can declare something like this:

app.SliderLabel.Text = char(958);

More information about startupFcn:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_guis/app-designer-startup-function.html

Answer 1

[Ishaan Mehta]

Hi Thomas,

I understand that you wish to you TeX characters in your MATLAB App Designer application.

One way to render LaTeX code anywhere in the apllcation's user interface is to use the "Label" component with its "Interpreter" option set to "latex", as in the image below.

This MathWorks documentation page provides more information on the "interpreter" optoin and the supported TeX markup.

Control label appearance: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.control.label-properties.html#:~:text=Interpreter%20%E2%80%94%20Label%20text%20interpreter

Hope this helps.