In 18b AppDesigner, you can use the Property Inspector from code or design view to add tooltips to your components - the code will automatically be generated for you as for other property sets.
"Is there any way to format the tooltip text in AppDesigner" - definitely (because UIFigures are web pages, and you can customize them pretty much any way you like). However, this depends on your MATLAB version and the exact effect you'd like to achieve.
You can add tooltips to any component, by using the Inspector tab that is displayed to the right in AppDesigner from MATLAB R2018b. Formatting using HTML is not a supported feature as of now.
In this blog, I have already posted several articles about how to tweak tooltip contents (here, here, and here). Today I would like to expand on one of the aspects that were already covered, namely that of multi-line tooltips.
In AppDesinger I want to add tooltips to each ui tree checkbox, so here each checkbox shall tell the user more of what is done or checked with the check exactly.
I am creating a GUI with AppDesigner and I want to add datatips so that the user can move their mouse over a table and see additional information that is not in the table column headers, i.e. units.
I can't go into code view and delete the line for tooltip string either as it is grayed out. So my question is how do I completely get rid of it without deleting the panel altogether and start over again?
In 18b AppDesigner, you can use the Property Inspector from code or design view to add tooltips to your components - the code will automatically be generated for you as for other property sets.
You can add tooltips to any component, by using the Inspector tab that is displayed to the right in AppDesigner from MATLAB R2018b. Formatting using HTML is not a supported feature as of now.