How to write equations in gui edit text box?

Hello

Can anyone tell me how to write an equation with superscript, symbols etc. to a gui edit text box.

Writing something like this doesn't work:

set(handles.box1,'String','y=1+x^2')

I know that there is a function called uibutton which can handle this type of issue for a button. Has anyone written something that works for edit text boxes?

Thanks in advance.

-Tom

[David Sanchez]

Could you paste the error you get. I do right that what you say you can not do with no problems at all.

[Tom]

I don't get an error but x^2 is displayed as x^2 and not as x superscript 2.

Answer 1

[per isakson]

The short answer is: It cannot be done! That's why Douglas Schwarz created uibutton: GUI pushbuttons with better labels, which I guess is the function you refer to.

Undocumented Matlab present another approach: Rich Matlab editbox contents.