Making Enter trigger a button in a .mlapp dialog

I am using the multi-window app facility (documented here) to create a dialog box a little fancier than the ones intrinsically provided. It provides an edit field in which the user may type a file name. I would like to arrange it so that if the user presses Enter after typing the file name, it triggers the Load button. I find that, if the keyboard focus is in the dialog generally, a KeyPressFcn callback for that dialog will be triggered. But if the keyboard focus is in a specific edit field, it won’t. But that is precisely what I want! Is there a way?

function createComponents(app)
% Create MainDialog and hide until all components are created
app.MainDialog = uifigure(‘Visible’, ‘off’);
app.MainDialog.Position = [100 100 879 218];
app.MainDialog.Name = ‘MATLAB App’;
app.MainDialog.KeyPressFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @LoadSaveButtonPushed, true);
% Create TitleLabel
app.TitleLabel = uilabel(app.MainDialog);
app.TitleLabel.HorizontalAlignment = ‘center’;
app.TitleLabel.FontSize = 24;
app.TitleLabel.Position = [364 164 154 32];
app.TitleLabel.Text = ‘Load Settings’;
% Create FileLabel
app.FileLabel = uilabel(app.MainDialog);
app.FileLabel.HorizontalAlignment = ‘right’;
app.FileLabel.Position = [68 102 27 22];
app.FileLabel.Text = ‘File:’;
% Create FileEditField
app.FileEditField = uieditfield(app.MainDialog, ‘text’);
app.FileEditField.Position = [110 102 622 22];
% Create LoadSaveButton
app.LoadSaveButton = uibutton(app.MainDialog, ‘push’);
app.LoadSaveButton.ButtonPushedFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @LoadSaveButtonPushed, true);
app.LoadSaveButton.FontSize = 18;
app.LoadSaveButton.Position = [694 27 110 38];
app.LoadSaveButton.Text = ‘Load’;
% Create BrowseButton
app.BrowseButton = uibutton(app.MainDialog, ‘push’);
app.BrowseButton.ButtonPushedFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @BrowseButtonPushed, true);
app.BrowseButton.Position = [763 102 100 23];
app.BrowseButton.Text = ‘Browse…’;
% Create CancelButton
app.CancelButton = uibutton(app.MainDialog, ‘push’);
app.CancelButton.ButtonPushedFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @CancelButtonPushed, true);
app.CancelButton.FontSize = 18;
app.CancelButton.Position = [94 27 110 38];
app.CancelButton.Text = ‘Cancel’;
% Show the figure after all components are created
app.MainDialog.Visible = ‘on’;
endI am using the multi-window app facility (documented here) to create a dialog box a little fancier than the ones intrinsically provided. It provides an edit field in which the user may type a file name. I would like to arrange it so that if the user presses Enter after typing the file name, it triggers the Load button. I find that, if the keyboard focus is in the dialog generally, a KeyPressFcn callback for that dialog will be triggered. But if the keyboard focus is in a specific edit field, it won’t. But that is precisely what I want! Is there a way?

function createComponents(app)
% Create MainDialog and hide until all components are created
app.MainDialog = uifigure(‘Visible’, ‘off’);
app.MainDialog.Position = [100 100 879 218];
app.MainDialog.Name = ‘MATLAB App’;
app.MainDialog.KeyPressFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @LoadSaveButtonPushed, true);
% Create TitleLabel
app.TitleLabel = uilabel(app.MainDialog);
app.TitleLabel.HorizontalAlignment = ‘center’;
app.TitleLabel.FontSize = 24;
app.TitleLabel.Position = [364 164 154 32];
app.TitleLabel.Text = ‘Load Settings’;
% Create FileLabel
app.FileLabel = uilabel(app.MainDialog);
app.FileLabel.HorizontalAlignment = ‘right’;
app.FileLabel.Position = [68 102 27 22];
app.FileLabel.Text = ‘File:’;
% Create FileEditField
app.FileEditField = uieditfield(app.MainDialog, ‘text’);
app.FileEditField.Position = [110 102 622 22];
% Create LoadSaveButton
app.LoadSaveButton = uibutton(app.MainDialog, ‘push’);
app.LoadSaveButton.ButtonPushedFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @LoadSaveButtonPushed, true);
app.LoadSaveButton.FontSize = 18;
app.LoadSaveButton.Position = [694 27 110 38];
app.LoadSaveButton.Text = ‘Load’;
% Create BrowseButton
app.BrowseButton = uibutton(app.MainDialog, ‘push’);
app.BrowseButton.ButtonPushedFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @BrowseButtonPushed, true);
app.BrowseButton.Position = [763 102 100 23];
app.BrowseButton.Text = ‘Browse…’;
% Create CancelButton
app.CancelButton = uibutton(app.MainDialog, ‘push’);
app.CancelButton.ButtonPushedFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @CancelButtonPushed, true);
app.CancelButton.FontSize = 18;
app.CancelButton.Position = [94 27 110 38];
app.CancelButton.Text = ‘Cancel’;
% Show the figure after all components are created
app.MainDialog.Visible = ‘on’;
end I am using the multi-window app facility (documented here) to create a dialog box a little fancier than the ones intrinsically provided. It provides an edit field in which the user may type a file name. I would like to arrange it so that if the user presses Enter after typing the file name, it triggers the Load button. I find that, if the keyboard focus is in the dialog generally, a KeyPressFcn callback for that dialog will be triggered. But if the keyboard focus is in a specific edit field, it won’t. But that is precisely what I want! Is there a way?

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