File Exchange Pick of the Week

February 18th, 2011

Fancy Menus

Jiro's pick this week is menubar by Dirk-Jan Kroon.

I'm honestly perplexed that his files have not been highlighted in Pick of the Week before. He is a big contributor to File Exchange with 57 submissions and second most downloaded in the last 30 days as of this writing. As you can see from his author page, many of his files have high ratings. I'm sure I'll be looking at more of his entries later.

This entry, menubar, is a clever one. Some of you may know that you can create menus in your GUI using uimenu. It allows you to create menus at the top of the GUI with a standard look and feel. Dirk-Jan's menubar lets you create fancy-looking menus. You can also place them anywhere in your GUI. The way you create it is to simply create a uicontextmenu and call menubar. He provides a sample GUI which you can run:

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Jiro is an application engineer at MathWorks. His job allows him to evangelize about MATLAB by traveling around the country to various universities and companies. He is a MATLAB addict, but he doesn't seem to mind being labeled as one.

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  1. UM replied on February 25th, 2011 at 15:52 UTC :

    I get this error

    ??? Undefined function or method ‘imshow’ for input arguments of type ‘uint8′.

    Error in ==> menubar>CreatMenuBar at 196
    data.menuitems(i).HandleImshow=imshow(barimage,’Parent’,data.menuitems(i).Handle);

    Error in ==> menubar at 95
    CreatMenuBar(uimenuhandle,C(i),Pos,figure_handle);

    Error in ==> test>test_OpeningFcn at 67
    menubar;

    Error in ==> gui_mainfcn at 221
    feval(gui_State.gui_OpeningFcn, gui_hFigure, [], guidata(gui_hFigure), varargin{:});

    Error in ==> test at 27
    gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:});

  2. jiro replied on February 25th, 2011 at 16:00 UTC :

    @UM: The author of this tool is using “imshow” which is a function from Image Processing Toolbox. Try changing “imshow” to “image” and that might fix it.

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