app-designer, rename variables

More out of curiosity: In the regular editor it is possible to rename a variable via the popup tooltip string that says "Press shift-Enter to rename n instances.....". It seems this is not possible in the editor of the app designer, or am I missing something? This was a very useful feature - will it be included in a future release? (I am also suprised that the 'undo' button is not working, while ctrl-Z / cmd-Z does... why?)

Best regards, Florian

[Ameer Hamza]

A while ago, someone else also highlighted these issues with the App designer's editor: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/533243-app-designer-issues-and-suggestions. Hopefully, these issues will be addressed in a future release.

[Florian Meirer]

Thanks! I hadn't seen this post - glad that I am not the only one struggling to get used to the App Designer Editor ;-) yes, let's hope these issues are addressed in the future.

[Vidhathri LNU]

Hey,

This feature is currently not available for the editor in appdesigner. We might consider it for future releases :)

[Florian Meirer]

Thanks! Would also be great to be able to have the editor and the design window in two separate windows so one can see them at the same time. Unrelated question but once that I am at it: since some time (don't know exactly since what release) the Cmd-A option to select all files in the uigetfile window does not work anymore... this is very annoying when selecting a lot of files via uigetfile. Cheers, Florian

[Vidhathri LNU]

Thanks for letting us know. We will consider working on these.

[Edwin Henry Jara Bardales]

Did you work on that? I have R2020a version. Regards.

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[Allen]

I am unable to find which version of MATLAB addressed and added this functionality to AppDesigner, but at least back to R2022a you were able to update a variablename and apply the changes to all instances with the Shift+Enter option similar to working in GUIDE, and simple scripts/functions.