GUI Creation

Hey I'm creating a GUI for a new engineering course. The GUI is for a project that gets agents to go around in a circle. Ultimately I want to have a text box so that the students can write their code in the text box, but it seems like the text box only allows a single line of writing. Anyway that I would be able to have a space for them to insert their code in?

Thanks in advance!

[Sean de Wolski]

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Answer 1

[Andy]

From http://www.mathworks.com/help/techdoc/ref/uicontrol_props.html:

Editable text – The Value property does not apply. If Max - Min > 1, then editable text boxes accept multiline input.

[Paulo Silva]

+1 vote

Answer 2

[Arturo Moncada-Torres]

You can use an "Input Dialog Box" with the function inputdlg.

For example, suppose you want a dialog box with two questions and three lines for each answer:

noLines = 3;

answers = inputdlg({'Question 1','Question 2'},...
    'Title of the Dialog Box', noLines,...
    {'Default Answer 1', 'Default Answer 2'});

Remember that answers is a cell array where each element corresponds to each answer (answer{1} has the answer of Question 1 and so on).

Hope this helps ;-)