Comments on: MATLAB Basics: Adding a toolbar to a GUI

By: dhull

dhull — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 18:48:42 +0000

@Lindsay,

The callbacks define what happens. You must add them unless you are using pre-builts with defaults as I am.

doug

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:16:33 +0000

In your demo you quickly showed how to add these things to a blank figure though it appeared you executed your original main program to show the tools added actually function. I tried adding the tools without adding any callbacks and the tools did nothing.
I didn’t see you add any code that makes the tools actually work. I thought the %default takes care of everything but apparently it doesn’t. can you elaborate why mine is not working.. am running matlab 2008b.

thanks

By: dhull

dhull — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:16:13 +0000

@Abhijit,

You have to turn on the grid on an axes by axes basis.

Doug

By: Abhijit Warke

Abhijit Warke — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:17:15 +0000

Hi, Another question

hold on
plot(handles.axes4, Data,’k');grid on
title(handles.axes4,’\fontsize{16} Signal’)
xlabel(handles.axes4,’\fontsize{16}Samples’)
ylabel(handles.axes4,’\fontsize{16}\mu’)
hold off

grid on

plot(handles.axes8, Data,’k');grid on
plot(handles.axes9, Data,’k');grid on
plot(handles.axes10,Data,’k');grid on

this does not switch on grid on any of the axis in the GUI. How do i switch the grid on for all the axes?

thanks in advance..

By: Abhijit Warke

Abhijit Warke — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:24:46 +0000

Thanks dhull! ill try that..

By: dhull

dhull — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:57:20 +0000

@abhijit

look at linkaxes and linkprop.

Doug

By: Abhijit Warke

Abhijit Warke — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:36:14 +0000

Hi Doug,

I have plot axes in my GUI and i want to synchronize the zoom in/out function for both. Which means if i zoom in on one figure it should correspondingly zoom in on the other by same amout. Both the axes share same x-axis but there is a need to plot them on different plots and not use hold on/off to solve my situation otherwise. Is there a way to do so, thanks!

By: Scott Hirsch

Scott Hirsch — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:51:19 +0000

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

By: shakeham

shakeham — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:38:48 +0000

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!

By: Kaj

Kaj — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:32:16 +0000

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