orientation of static text

I want to change the allignment of the text in a static text on a gui that I want to create with guide. Is it possible to make the text appear vertically? How?

Answer 1

[Youssef Khmou]

I think this solution will work

plot(randn(100,1));
h=text(1,1,'  My description');
set(h,'Rotation',60);

The text is rotated by pi/3.

Answer 2

[Jan]

The FileExchange submission uibutton allows to put a rotated text into a button. It is easy to modify either the code or the created button to a uicontrol of the style 'text'.

[the cyclist]

Nice! I did a keyword search of the FEX, but somehow did not find this.

Answer 3

[the cyclist]

It is not possible to do this directly. It offers a work-around, in which you put an axes object in your GUI, then use the text command (which does have a 'Rotation' property) to rotate your text.

That support solution is kinda old, but I did not see any other solution when I searched, and there is not a 'Rotation' property for the Static Text object in GUIDE, which is how I would expect it to be implemented if the feature existed.