MATLAB: How to make buttuns react to enter/return

guiguidematlab guipushbutton

Hi,

I am starting to be slightly irritated by buttons…I can I make a button to react to enter/retun key when I press it when I tab on it ?? I can't find a good functioning solution anywhere. Why for example a questdlg have that function and ordinary buttons dont ??

Please help 🙂

Thanks, Peter

Best Answer

Solution was simple and enough elegant for me...

function pushbutton1_KeyPressFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)

    key = get(gcf,'CurrentKey');
    if(strcmp (key , 'return'))
        pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
    end

function pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)

    %code to be executed

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On most standard GUI platforms, pushbuttons do not respond to ENTER key press. The ENTER key is reserved for activating the default control. However you can work around this behavior by using the push buttons KeyPressFcn callback to call the same code like in the following extract from a simple GUI:

% --- Executes on button press in pushbutton1.
function pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
%...

myfunc(hObject, handles)
% --- Executes on key press with focus on pushbutton1 and none of its controls.
function pushbutton1_KeyPressFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
%...
if strcmp(eventdata.Key,'return')
disp([eventdata.Key ' key pressed'])
myfunc(hObject, handles)
end
function myfunc(hObject, handles)
disp('myfunc called')

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