uicontrol radiobutton label text is offset vertically

See attached image. Is the alignment between the radiobuttons and the text correct? To me it looks like the text is too high. Is there a way to control this?

[Stephen23]

There is no documented "VerticalAlignment" property:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.control.uicontrol-properties.html#d126e1910022

Most likely this behavior depends on your OS / Java / MATLAB version, which you have not told us.

uicontrol('Style','radiobutton', 'String','Micro')

[CM]

I get similar alignment to you when I run that command by itself, but the text seems smaller relative to the circle.

I am running Matlab 2023b on Windows 11 Home 24H2, Java 1.8.0_202-b08.

Comparing with your one line example, my code does seem to lift the text vertically somehow. I'll have a play around and see if I can figure out how. I am using a panel inside a grid inside a tab and have done a lot of tweeking with the alignments, so not real sure where to look.

[Walter Roberson]

I checked, and there are no apparent internal properties for controlling text position or text alignment for uicontrol()

[CM]

Give this a go. I get higher text on the second one.

uicontrol('Style', 'radiobutton', 'String', 'Micro')
figWindow  = uifigure('HandleVisibility', 'on');
uicontrol('Style', 'radiobutton', 'String', 'Micro')

Answer 1

[Deepak]

Hi @CM,

I understand that you are noticing a slight misalignment between the radio buttons and their text labels when using "uicontrol('Style', 'radiobutton')", particularly when used inside a "uifigure". The "uicontrol" does not provide internal properties to control the vertical text alignment, so the text might appear slightly higher or off-center.

If you are working in a modern UI context, a better alternative is to use App Designer-style components such as "uibuttongroup" with "uiradiobutton", which offer improved layout and text alignment. Here is an example:

fig = uifigure;
bg = uibuttongroup(fig, 'Position', [100 100 200 100]);
uiradiobutton(bg, 'Text', 'Micro', 'Position', [10 60 100 20]);
uiradiobutton(bg, 'Text', 'Micro', 'Position', [10 40 100 20]);
uiradiobutton(bg, 'Text', 'Equal', 'Position', [10 20 100 20]);

Please find attached the documentation of functions used for referernce:

uibuttongroup: www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uibuttongroup.html

uiradiobutton: www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uiradiobutton.html

I hope this helps.