I have several GUI's which I would like to combine into one "master" GUI where I could select all the GUI's in different tabs. Is there a way to do it, without building the GUI from scratch?
Just to make it clear:
GUI 1 Data Loading
GUI 2 Data Preprocessing
GUI 3 Data Analysis
Master GUI=Should have 3 tabs with the same layout etc. like the existing GUI's
Update:
I tried the GUI Layout Toolbox which can be used to create tabs. But how do I now include my already existing GUI's into each tab?
f = figure();
p = uiextras.TabPanel();
uicontrol( 'Parent', p);
uicontrol( 'Parent', p);
uicontrol( 'Parent', p);
p.TabNames = {'Data Loading', 'Data Preprocessing', 'Data Analysis'};
p.TabSize = 100;
Update 2:
Are there any other options to combine multiple GUI's?
IMHO, this pretty much depends on the implementation of the individual guis.
If all GUIs make use of guidata and properties of the parent figure (of which there will be only one after the combination), this can quickly become impossible or at least messy without reworking all GUIs.
Another possibility would be to dock the figures into one desktop-group.
This way each individual GUI would be kept isolated and doesn't need changes in its implementation.
See e.g.
http://www.mathworks.nl/matlabcentral/fileexchange/18106-manage-and-dock-figures-into-group
for an example on how to dock figures into one desktop-group.
EDIT:
A quick&dirty example:
function dockTest()
GROUPNAME = 'MyGUIs';
desktop = com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance();
group = desktop.addGroup(GROUPNAME);
desktop.showGroup(GROUPNAME,1);
% create some dummy-figures:
for i=1:2
figureList(i) = figure('name', ['GUI ', num2str(i)],...
'numbertitle','off');
end
% dock figures in list:
for i=1:numel(figureList)
f = figureList(i);
jf = get(handle(f), 'JavaFrame');
jf.setGroupName(GROUPNAME);
set(f, 'WindowStyle', 'docked');
end
end
You should be able to simply make figureList (and maybe GROUPNAMEas well) be an argument to this function, hence passing it all figure-handles you want to dock into a group.
You don't need a toolbox for this.
I guess I should note that this is all based on undocumented features.
I usually play around with this sort of things by making heavy use of methodsview on the individual java objects involved.
Try the GUI Layout Toolbox from the File Exchange, it allows tabbed GUIs, which are not supported out of the box in MATLAB. There will probably be some re-writing of your existing GUIs to make them work with the GUI Layout Toolbox used for the main GUI, but hopefully this should be minimal.
One way to combine several GUI is to manipulate their visibility with an extra GUI.
create a main GUI with 3 buttons
in the opening function OpeningFcn, call your 3 gui and save their handles in the workspace with
STATE(1) = dataLoading;
STATE(2) = dataProcessing;
STATE(3) = dataAnalyzing;
assignin('base', 'STATE', STATE);
%make the first one visible
set(STATE(1),'Visible','on');
set(STATE(2),'Visible','off');
set(STATE(3),'Visible','off');
in pushbutton_Callback, retrieve STATE and set a visibility property
STATE = evalin('base', 'STATE');
set(STATE(1),'Visible','off');
set(STATE(3),'Visible','off');
set(STATE(2),'Visible','on');
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As the title states, I need to get a handle for my Matlab application. My class is derived from matlab.apps.AppBase and is app.UIFigure (if that matter, I'm still learning Matlab). My main goal is to change the mouse cursor to watch after a button is clicked and data is processed in the background.
I have tried:
set(gcf,'Pointer','watch')
But gcf is just empty, so it creates a new figure. I have also gotten all of the figures, using:
figs = findall(groot,'Type','Figure')
Which finds all of the figures I am using. I believe that I need to get the overall application figure and find the handle, but I am unsure how to do that.
There is no pointer property for uifigure; otherwise, you would be able to use app.UIFigure.Pointer = 'watch' as suggested by #CrisLuengo.
However, specially for uifigure MATLAB provides a nice looking and powerful progress bar uiprogressdlg. You can make it indeterminate with uiprogressdlg.Indeterminate = on;. I find this working pleasingly well.
Here is an example:
f=uifigure;
progressdlg=uiprogressdlg(f,'Title','Progress','Message', 'Doing something please wait', 'Indeterminate','on');
pause(10); % Run your algorithm.
% Delete the progress bar after work done.
progressdlg.delete();
I used Matlab GUIDE to create a GUI.
It is displayed mid-screen.
How can I position it at the top of the screen; so that the top edge of the GUI window is at top of screen.
It will be used on different Windows 7 computers with different screen resolutions.
I tried to set hObject.Position(2) but it doesn't do what I want.
I think the simplest way would be to use movegui in the OpeningFcn of your GUI with the appropriate argument, i.e. using either 'north', 'northeast' or 'northwest'.
The calling syntax is quite simple, using the handles to the figure created. In GUIDE, the default name for figures is "figure1", so in your case the code would look like this (unless you changed the figure's name):
movegui(handles.figure1,'northwest') %// or whatever
Note that movegui calls the following 3 functions to get the screen size and monitor positions/units:
screensize = get(0, 'ScreenSize');
monitors = get(0,'MonitorPositions');
old0units = get(0, 'Units');
So you could do the same to make the calculations yourself in order to place the figure precisely where you want if the above solution is not sufficient for you.
I have a matlab figure with 4 tabs that are generated inside a for loop. The figure handles are overwritten for each tab inside the loop. I want to save this figure window as it is (with the 4 tabs in single figure window), but with the savefig() command(used outside the loop) I'm only able to save the last tab. With the savefig(handle,_) command used inside the loop(along with a close(handle) outside the loop), I'm able to save in a single file, but the tabs open in separate figure windows. Is there a workaround for this?
If you store the handle to the parent of the tab group to use with savefig() it should also save all the child objects.
For example:
h.mainfig = figure();
h.tabgroup = uitabgroup(h.mainfig, 'Position', [.05 .1 .9 .8]);
ntabs = 4;
for ii = 1:ntabs
h.tab(ii) = uitab(h.tabgroup, 'Title', sprintf('Tab_%i', ii));
end
% Make a sample plot on tab 2
h.axes(2) = axes('Parent', h.tab(2));
plot(h.axes(2), 1:10);
savefig(h.mainfig, 'test.fig');
Opening test.fig should reopen the entire figure.
As a general aside I would recommend not overwriting things as you create them, it makes it a pain to address later on and you don't really gain anything by overwriting them with each iteration.
In one GUI (viewer) I have an image that shows a 2D slice through a 3D image cube. A toolbar button opens a second GUI (z-profile) that plots a 2D graph showing the z-profile of one pixel in the image cube. What I want is to be able to update this plot dynamically when a different pixel is clicked in the original viewer GUI. I've looked in to linkdata but I'm not sure if that can be used to link across two GUIs. Is there a simple way to do this without re-creating the second GUI each time a new pixel is clicked and feeding in the new input location?
You can definitely doing it without recreating the second GUI every time.
Without knowing your specific code I would say that you should store a reference to the second GUI in the first GUI, then in a callback for clicking a pixel in the first GUI, change data in the second GUI via the stored reference (e.g. figure handle). You can store arbitrary data in a figure, for example by using function guidata. A bit of code.
...
figure2 = figure();
figure1 = figure('WindowButtonDownFcn',#myCallback);
guidata(figure1, figure2);
...
function myCallback(obj,eventdata)
figure2 = guidata(obj);
...
Even easier but a bit more error-prone would be to use global variables for storing the references.
I've writtend a GUI function in MATLAB R2009b which makes use of the IMRECT function. I need to make sure this GUI also works in MATLAB R2007b: since this release the IMRECT function has undergone extensive changes. I have two question:
1 - in the new (R2009b) IMRECT, a method GETCOLOR is defined which allows to get the color which was selected by the user using the scroll menu. Is there a way to mimic this behavior for the old (R2007b) function?
2 - in MATLAB R2009b I can use WAIT after using IMRECT as follows:
h = imrect(axhandle);
wait(h);
this allows to wait unitl the user as correctly placed his/her rectangle and has double click to confirm the choice. Is there anything analogous that can be used with IMRECT from R2007b?
Unfortunately, you need a workaround for both functions.
Here is one way to do it:
%# Create a figure and some points
fh = figure;plot(rand(10,1),rand(10,1),'.')
ah = gca;
%# this allows the user to place the rectangle. However, the code resumes
%# as soon as the rectangle has been drawn
rh = imrect(ah,[]);
%# Create a dialog to have the possibility to uiwait
wh = warndlg('Please close this dialog once you are done adjusting your rectangle');
uiwait(wh)
%# Get the color of the rectangle
rectKids = get(rh,'Children');
rectangleColor = get(rectKids(1),'Color');
You can use verLessThan to check for the Matlab version in order to get the proper functionality. However, if there are users who'll use the code both on 2007b and 2009b, I suggest you leave the dialog box in for everyone, so that they don't get confused when they switch.