textbox in an empty figure

I can create a GUI textbox in an empty figure and I am trying to control the attributes of that textbox using a handle in a matlab script but I can't seem to locate the handle to that textbox object. Am I looking for a handle that doesn't exist?

Answer 1

[Adam]

How do we know? You haven't shown us any code!

Just store the handle when you create it, then you don't need to look for it:

hTextBox = uicontrol( ... );