The label component of an edit field is not showing in component browser of app designer

I am using appdesigner. I added an edit field (which includes an "edit field" and an "edit field label". I changed the name of the edit field to "Env6", and the tag of the edit field changed to "Env6EditField", but the associated label is just called "Label". I want the label to be renamed to "Env6EditFieldLabel", in concordance with my other edit fields & labels, but I can't find the label component in the appdesigners component browser.

If I debug from within a callback, I can see that there is a field of "app" called "Label" (i.e. isfield(app,'Label')==1), but it isn't editable with the appdesigner GUI and not visible in component browser.

How do I edit this?

Answer 1

[Andrew]

I figured it out! If you right click on the relevant object in "Component Browser", there is a checkbox for viewing the associated label. Here's a screenshot example for anyone having similar issues:

Answer 2

[cr]

I don't think Label for an edit field exists as a separate object (at least not in very recent versions). It's a part of the editfield object and accessible via the editfield object's Label property. In your case the label can be accessed as app.Env6EditField.Label.

[Andrew]

The label field you describe does not exist. I believe that's how it used to be, so I'm confused now. I described precisely how the objects are organized above. For reference, this is on Matlab version R2022a.

[cr]

Can you share a screenshot? What OS are you on?

See my screeshots from 17b and 22b

[Andrew]

cr, thanks again for your comment. I have already included a screenshot and I explained the object structure as clearly as I can. It's Windows 10, Matlab R2022a. I don't know how to explain what happened any clearer. I promise you what I said is correct, the label is a different object, with a different tag, and the EditField object has no field called label, because the EditFieldLabel is a different object. There may be a setting I can change to prevent this separation, but I don't know what it is. In my screenshot - the PNG file, it shows that there's a button for including the label objects in the component browser.

[cr]

You are right. Never noticed it, never needed it. Not sure what purpose it's serving since the object can be accessed using the label property.

[Andrew]

Just to be absolutely clear for any future matlab users who see this thread- in my version of matlab, the label property you describe does not exist. Again, it does not exist.

For example, if there is a component called "EditField", then there will be an associated component called "EditFieldLabel". However, the label component that is associated with "EditField" is not a property of "EditField". in code:

isfield(app.EditField,'label')==false

the above expression evaluates as false because the label field does not exist.

I am being thorough here for 2 reasons:

1. cr -- I don't want other users to be confused by your comment if they have the same version of matlab as me.
2. I don't understand why the label components would ever be separated. This is silly behavior. Maybe a @MathWorks Support Team employee will see this and reunite the labels with their parent components. Pretty please?