Rotate Label on App Designer

Hi,

I've added a label component to my app in App Designer and want to rotate the textbox 90° so the text can be read vertically. I've tried using different methods to rotate text in other cases, e.g.:

set(app.Label,'Rotation',90)

app.Label.Rotate = 90

But keep receiving the error

There is no Rotation property on the Label class

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Adam Danz]

It looks like label objects do not have a rotation property

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.control.label-properties.html

Also, the rotate() function only acceps axis children which is not satisfied by app designer components.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/rotate.html

[Jenny Read]

Having vertical text labels is really quite basic functionality - surely these needs to be added as a matter of urgency?

[Cathie Kessler]

Total hack, and not applicable, if you want to change the text or any other properties: make an image of your rotated text, and insert as an image.

Answer 1

[Kanishk Singhal]

There is a FEX submission which can be help.

uibutton: GUI pushbuttons with better labels - File Exchange - MATLAB Central (mathworks.com)

You can change the button to simple text, by changing property in uicontrol.

Answer 2

[Hardik]

there is no any rotation proprty but you can split text and put it into label so it will look like vertical.

lbl=uilabel(app.GridLayout);

lbl.Layout.Row=9;

lbl.Layout.Column=2;

text="Vertical comment";

newstring=split(text,'');

lbl.Text=newstring;

lbl.HorizontalAlignment='center';