Import figures to MATLAB GUI using handles? - matlab

Question

How can I literally take these figures and place them in the axes windows of my GUI?
I am not sure where to place handles in my user-defined code in the example below. I have 4 figures in total which look similar to this example. I want the 4 figures to be displayed in my GUI window and not in separate windows, so i've created 4 axes windows in the .fig file.
The code for this particular figure draws a grid of 66 black and white rectangles based on whether or not a value in MyVariable is a 1 or a 0. Black if MyVariable is a 1, White if MyVariable is 0. I have a file for my .fig GUI, one file to control the GUI and one with user-defined code that links to the GUI.
function test = MyScript(handles)
lots of code in between
% Initialize and clear plot window
figure(2); clf;
% Plot the west wall array panels depending on whether or not they are
% shaded or unshaded
for x = 1:11
for y = 1:6
if (MyVariable(x,y) == 1)
rectangle('position', [x-1, y-1, 1, 1] ,'EdgeColor', 'w', 'facecolor', 'k')
else if(MyVariable(x,y) == 0)
rectangle('position', [x-1, y-1, 1, 1], 'facecolor', 'w')
end
end
end
end
title('West Wall Array',...
'FontWeight','bold')
axis off
The figure for the above code looks like this:
The function definition contains all of my script code for all 4 plots because I didn't partition my script into individual functions earlier on.
My GUI script code contains:
MyScript(handles);

Answer 1

As DMR sais, it's necesary to set the 'CurrentAxes'. For example, if you want to plot into the axis with the tag name 'axis1' you should simply add:
axes(handles.axes1);
to your code. Below is a very simple example for a figure containing a 'axis1' and 'axis2' using your code (corrected) code from above. Im not really shure wether you want to plot on an axis on your gui itself or a separate figure. I hope I covered both cases.
function varargout = Test(varargin)
% Begin initialization code - DO NOT EDIT
gui_Singleton = 1;
gui_State = struct('gui_Name', mfilename, ...
'gui_Singleton', gui_Singleton, ...
'gui_OpeningFcn', #Test_OpeningFcn, ...
'gui_OutputFcn', #Test_OutputFcn, ...
'gui_LayoutFcn', [] , ...
'gui_Callback', []);
if nargin && ischar(varargin{1})
gui_State.gui_Callback = str2func(varargin{1});
end
if nargout
[varargout{1:nargout}] = gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:});
else
gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:});
end
% End initialization code - DO NOT EDIT
% --- Executes just before Test is made visible.
function Test_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin)
% Choose default command line output for Test
handles.output = hObject;
% Update handles structure
guidata(hObject, handles);
plot(handles.axes2,-2*pi:0.1:2*pi,sin(-2*pi:0.1:2*pi));
% Initialize and clear plot window
MyVariable = ones(11,6);
MyVariable(1:5,1) = 0;
axes(handles.axes1);
for x = 1:11
for y = 1:6
if (MyVariable(x,y) == 1)
rectangle('position', [x-1, y-1, 1, 1] ,'EdgeColor', 'w', 'facecolor', 'k');
elseif(MyVariable(x,y) == 0)
rectangle('position', [x-1, y-1, 1, 1], 'facecolor', 'w');
end
end
end
title('West Wall Array',...
'FontWeight','bold')
figure(2); clf;
for x = 1:11
for y = 1:6
if (MyVariable(x,y) == 1)
rectangle('position', [x-1, y-1, 1, 1] ,'EdgeColor', 'w', 'facecolor', 'k');
elseif(MyVariable(x,y) == 0)
rectangle('position', [x-1, y-1, 1, 1], 'facecolor', 'w');
end
end
end
title('West Wall Array',...
'FontWeight','bold')
function varargout = Test_OutputFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
varargout{1} = handles.output;
Your guide GUI should look like this:
And your result like this:

Answer 2

You can set the axis to plot into prior each plot command by setting the 'CurrentAxes' property of the figure.
Within GUIDE, you can tag a given axis, for example: http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_guis/gui-with-multiple-axes-guide.html . Then within your drawing code, indicate which axis should be plotted into via the 'set' function and 'CurrentAxes' property.
A simple example is below, though it doesn't use GUIDE, only basic subplot axis handles:
% plots in most recent axis by default (ax2)
fig = figure;
ax1 = subplot(1,2,1);
ax2 = subplot(1,2,2);
plot(rand(1,10));
% indicate that you want to plot in ax1 instead
fig = figure;
ax1 = subplot(1,2,1);
ax2 = subplot(1,2,2);
set(gcf, 'CurrentAxes', ax1);
plot(rand(1,10));