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July 22nd, 2008

People often make their own GUIs in GUIDE and they have a data visualization. When you embed an axis in your own GUI rather than using a figure window, you lose the built in toolbar that has zoom, pan, and other goodies. You can add the widgets you want back into your GUI very easily, or even make your own custom tools for the toolbar. This short video shows you how.

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17 Responses to “MATLAB Basics: Adding a toolbar to a GUI”

1. Daniel Armyr replied on July 23rd, 2008 at 01:41 UTC :
   

   Nicey nice. Another feature which isn’t so important you break your skull finding yourself, but allways felt that you really should find out how to do.

   –DA

2. Sharina replied on July 24th, 2008 at 12:08 UTC :
   

   Hi Doug,

   This proves to be an excellent video.
   But can u please tell the version of MATLAB which has a toolbar edit option in it?

3. Doug replied on July 29th, 2008 at 15:34 UTC :
   

   This video was made with 2008a.

   Doug

4. Rachel replied on August 4th, 2008 at 06:02 UTC :
   

   Hi Doug,

   I was wondering if you could help me out?

   I have created a GUI which displays two axes. However I only want the zoom tool to be used on one of them. (I tried using zoom off, but turns the zoom tool off on both axes!) Do you know how I can achieve this?

   Thank you

   Rachel

5. jiro replied on August 4th, 2008 at 07:06 UTC :
   

   Hi Rachel,

   Take a look at Example 3 here:

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

   jiro

6. Geoff replied on August 4th, 2008 at 09:56 UTC :
   

   Sharina might like to know that toolbar editing was introduced to GUIDE in MATLAB Version 7.5 (R2007b).

7. shakeham replied on August 5th, 2008 at 18:11 UTC :
   

   Doug, thank you very much. You posts are very useful

8. Kaj replied on August 18th, 2008 at 16:32 UTC :
   

   Doug,

   It does not seem possible to add an ‘plot edit’ button in this way. I would like to be able to select objects plotted in the axes in my GUI. In a GUI using R14, I built a ‘plot edit’ button using the commond ‘plotedit on’, but in R2008a this does not work — it disables all my GUI buttons.

   Thanks,
   Kaj

9. shakeham replied on September 8th, 2008 at 11:38 UTC :
   

   Hi Doug,
   Sorry this may not be the right place to ask this question. But I really find it one of the very few impossible things to do with Matlab. I’m trying to build a GUI, with a button which if clicked will open the Matlab arrayeditor and allow the user to edit some data. But as all the halting functions, like ‘pause’, ‘waitfor’ or ‘uiwait’ will take us somewhere outside the current workspace, it won’t work. There would be nothing in the arrayEditor window. I’d like some function that would hold the program right there like what we’d have with a breakpoint in debugging mode. Is it even possible? Thanks!

10. Scott Hirsch replied on September 10th, 2008 at 12:51 UTC :
    

    Shakeham –

    You might want to try working with UITABLE instead – just wrap it in a figure. A caution – UITABLE was released in R2008A. Earlier versions (back to MATLAB 7/R14) have an undocumented version of UITABLE that works, but which is not compatible with the new version.

    - scott

11. Surbhi replied on November 12th, 2008 at 02:30 UTC :
    

    Hey this was really useful.
    Thank you so much. Your vides are *SOO* helpful. I must have spent easily 1-2 hrs on reading things but referring to your videos speeds up everything :)
    thanks !

12. Doug replied on November 12th, 2008 at 16:11 UTC :
    

    Surbhi,

    Glad to help. Thanks for the feedback!

    -Doug

13. Zuhairi replied on March 12th, 2010 at 12:05 UTC :
    

    Hi doug!

    I’d like to ask a question. When I click Data Cursor, and I click on the image, the coordinate will be shown. How do i get the value of X coordinate n Y coordinate? Let’s say I want to display the coordinate on text or something and it will update the value every time I click on the image. Thank you in advance. ;]

14. Steve L replied on March 12th, 2010 at 14:23 UTC :
    

    Zuhairi,

    I would create a DATACURSORMODE object and set its UpdateFcn property to be a function that not only computes the string for the data cursor itself but also display the coordinate in a text box, or does whatever other processing you want to be performed when you click on the image.

15. Jae replied on June 23rd, 2010 at 01:24 UTC :
    

    The feature demonstrated here only works with MATLAB Version 7.5 (R2007b) or newer. I have R2006b and cannot use this feature.

    [ref: http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/rn/bq9954l-1.html

16. Jim O' Doherty replied on May 18th, 2011 at 09:32 UTC :
    

    Is there any capability to add the contrast adjust button, such as the one available using imtool? This would be really useful for me (and others I presume)

    Thanks,
    Jim

17. Doug replied on May 18th, 2011 at 13:37 UTC :
    

    @Jim,

    >>imshow(‘pout.tif’)
    >>imcontrast

    You can run the tool directly. With this command, you can call the tool up in any manner you like.

    Doug

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