Multiple Row Xlabels in Matlab App Designer UIFigure UIAxes

Hi there,

I am trying to figure out the simplest/cleanest way to place multiple row (in my case - two rows) xlabels into a UIFigure in Matlab App Designer.

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Kevin Holly]

fig = figure;
app.UIAxes = uiaxes(fig);

You can place the following line in the startup function of your app.

xlabel(app.UIAxes,{'xlabel 1';'xlabel 2'})

[Gillian Weir]

Kevin - apologies for not being more clear. I am specifically looking to do two rows per xticklabel. So inserting text for 0,0.2,0.4,0.6,0.8,1 where each tick has two strings in two separate rows.

[Kevin Holly]

Below is borrowed from Adam Danz in this MATLAB Answer question:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/101922-how-do-i-create-a-multi-line-tick-label-for-a-figure-using-matlab-7-10-r2010a

Be sure to upvote his Answer in the link above if this helps.

row1 = {'White' 'Green' 'Red' 'White' 'Green' 'Red'};
row2 = {'East' 'East' 'East' 'West' 'West' 'West'};
row3 = 10.5:15.5; 
labelArray = [row1; row2; compose('%.1f',row3)]; 

tickLabels = strtrim(sprintf('%s\\newline%s\\newline%s\n', labelArray{:}));

fig = figure;
app.UIAxes = uiaxes(fig); 
app.UIAxes.XTick = 1:6; 
app.UIAxes.XLim = [0,7];
app.UIAxes.XTickLabel = tickLabels; 
xlabel(app.UIAxes,{'Color';'Direction';'Value'})

[Gillian Weir]

Thanks Kevin - I had tried this one originally. I have followed this exactly but in the app, rather than creating a new line for each row - it has WhitenewlineEastnewline10.5 (and the same for the rest) on each x-tick.

[Kevin Holly]

I tested the attached app on R2023a and R2021b. It works fine for me. I do not have R2021a currently installed to test to see if it was a version issue.

[Gillian Weir]

Ah ok - I just opened that on my computer with 2021a and that must be the issue. Thanks for walking through this with me - appreciate it!

[Adam Danz]

@Gillian Weir it looks like your tick label interpreter is set to none or latex. This solution requires a tex interpreter.

app.UIAxes.TickLabelInterpreter= 'tex';