Simulink Mask newline or line feed in Static Text Control?

Is there a way to force a line feed or newline within text on a static text control in a Simulink mask?

I tried the typical \n \\n \n\r \newline chr(10) uint8(10) chr(13) uint8(13), etc. Nothing worked. The text was always printed literally.

I tried for days to look for help and documentation, but came up with nothing.

Is there an escape sequence that will work?

Answer 1

[Nicolas B.]

Hey Jerry,

I just experienced the same issue as you. I found no solution to add a space in a Text Display box through the Mask Editor.

However, I have found a workaround! Let's imagine you have a textbox with the name myTextBox in the mask and you want to write :

line 1
line 2

Then, use select the block in Simulink (to be able to use gcb) and then, in the MATLAB console:

% get the handle of the mask
maskObj = Simulink.Mask.get(gcb);
% get the handle of the Text box
tbObj = maskObj.getDialogControl('myTextBox');
% set the Prompt value
tbObj.Prompt = ['line 1', ...
                10, ... % 10 must be a numerical value to be ASCII(10)
                'line 2'];
            
% now, check your mask.It should have worked

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

[Jean-Guilhem Dalissier]

A solution is to use the HTML break tag:

line 1<br>line 2

More generally the Prompt field of a control seems to accept HTML so more sophisticated formatting may be acheived, for example:

Some text formatting in a list:<ol><li>Normal <b>bold</b> <i>italic</i> <span style="font-family:'Courier New';color:red;font-size:10px">Small_Red_CourierNew</span></li> <li>P = R₁.I²</li> <li>U1 &#62; U2 </li> </ol>