How to wrap text within buttons of app-designer

Is there a way I can chose to wrap the text in my button to a 2nd row, instead of letting it to overflow outside my button?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

You can make set multi-lined text in a button from within the startup function startupFcn().

The first line below creates two lines of text within the button.

The second line moves the button down and doubles its vertical size. Set the button width and the position of the top of the button from the DesignView.

% Code that executes after component creation
        function startupFcn(app, arg1)
            app.Button.Text = ['Really long',newline,'button name']; % or sprintf('Really long\nbutton name')
            app.Button.Position([2,4]) = app.Button.Position([2,4]) + [-1,1].*app.Button.Position(4);
            
            % If you'd rather the button size to expand upward rather than downward, 
            % Replace the 2nd line above with
            % app.Button.Position(4) = app.Button.Position(4)*2;
            
        end

Update

As of R2020b multi-line text in buttons can be achieved from Design View (thanks Eric Sargent).

[Leon]

It works! Many thanks.

[Adam Danz]

Glad I could help.

I just added to may answer that you can set the button width and the position of the top of the button from the DesignView; but you may have already figured that out.

[Eric Sargent]

As of R2020b components that support multiline text now support WordWrap, including uibutton.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.control.button-properties.html

uilabel, uitextarea, uibutton, uitogglebutton, uicheckbox, uiradiobutton

[Adam Danz]

Thanks Eric, I updated my answer to increase visibility.

Answer 2

[Eric Sargent]

As of R2020b components that support multiline text now support WordWrap, including uibutton.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.control.button-properties.html

uilabel, uitextarea, uibutton, uitogglebutton, uicheckbox, uiradiobutton

[Adam Danz]

+1, thanks for the update, Eric.