Selection color in uicontrol listbox

Hey all!

I'm wondering if there is a way to control the highlight selection color (currently blue) in a list box? See attached example.

TIA!

Trevor

[Adam Danz]

You could change the background color of individulal rows (see this ) but I don't know of a way to change the selection highlight color.

Answer 1

[Monica Roberts]

There is no object property you can change to alter the highlight selection color.

As a workaround, in your list selection callback, you can deselect the item to remove the highlight, and change the background color using the HTML method Adam linked to. The following answers page provides a good example of how to change the text colors in individual rows, you can modify it to change the "bgcolor" instead of "color" (in the line pre = ...), which will "highlight" that list item.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/153064-change-color-of-each-individual-string-in-a-listbox

Answer 2

[Keqin Xu]

Trouble is, when there are "<" in the string, the "<" are missing in the listbox!

Any ideas to fix it? Thanks!

[Joris Lambrecht]

I use the following little function:

function htmlStr = formatHTML(str)
    % FORMATHTML converts < and > to HTML codes 
    htmlStr = strrep(str, '<', '&#60');
    htmlStr = strrep(htmlStr, '>', '&#62');
end