Comments on: GUI Layout (Part 1)

By: jiro

jiro — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:41:22 +0000

@smily,

To your question about the GUI size, you should read up on the “Position” property and the “Units” property of the figure (as well as the other graphics objects).

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/figure_props.html

Also, understanding how graphics and Handle Graphics work in MATLAB will be extremely helpful:

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/creating_plots/bqrw9tj.html

As for your second question about plotting on a specific axes, I’m not sure I completely understand your question. I suggest contacting Support:

http://www.mathworks.com/support/

By: smily

smily — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:50:38 +0000

1 more doubt i have….
as i told before i have palced 1 picture(.jpg) and 1 plot on the same GUI figure,…when im pressing the plot button, plot is occupying the whole figure rather than coming in the axes provided for it..
can u help me plzz…its urgent for me.

By: smily

smily — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 10:45:14 +0000

hiiii…al..
thank you very much jiro for your gr8 tutorials..
im working with GUI for my project work…
i have created a GUI with buttons,popups,axes and a picture…
i have created it on 19″ computer and when i opened it in 14″ comp, some part is going out of the boundary…and im not able to drag alsooo…
can u plzzz help mee…

By: jiro

jiro — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:15:49 +0000

Matthew,

The slider actually changes the equation being plotted on the figure. Take a look at the link above “Dynamic GUI Layout” which is the File Exchange file that you can download.

The default behavior of axes is that they automatically scale based on the data that is plotted. You can manually change the scale by using the XLIM, YLIM, ZLIM commands, or changing the respective properties of the axes. Take a look at this page for the axes properties you can change:

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/axes_props.html

By: Matthew Adler

Matthew Adler — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:26:57 +0000

In this spectrum file that you are showing in the figure – I assume that the slider allows the user to change the range in x and then the y-values adjust automatically as the slider is used? What code do you use to do this? I know how to link a slider to a variable, but not to the range (scale). Maybe you just have the axis on ‘auto’ and matlab is smart enough to rescale automatically?

By: Julio

Julio — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:55:46 +0000

Great work Jiro. I’d just like to add that I used to make guis in my laptop (1024×768) and maximized using maximize.m from the File Exchange. When I changed computers to my main PC, the screen resolution is 1280×960 and the picture totally messed up. Using your resize methods I could move everyting good, but I also recommend using:

get(0, ‘ScreenSize’);

to get the resolution of the monitor. This is useful to move and position certain things that should be done in pixels rather than normalized units. I hope this helps a little.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:43:57 +0000

Matlab is a new field for me now, I want to learn it more.Thanks for your work,Jiro.I like it.
-Tom

By: Jiro

Jiro — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:45:23 +0000

Thanks, Ken.

You are ahead of the game. Stayed tuned for Part 3… :)

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:04:18 +0000

Great tips Jiro! I too like aesthetically pleasing user interfaces, part of which is correct resizing capabilities. Brian Cody also touched on this topic over at The MATLAB Desktop Blog in an entry titled Managing Layout in the Absence of Layout Management. -Ken