Creating Graphical User Interfaces

GUI with Axes and Menu

The GUI with axes and menu template is shown in the following figure.

When you run the GUI by clicking the Run button on the toolbar, the GUI displays a plot of five random numbers generated by the MATLAB rand(5) command, as shown in the following figure.

You can select other plots in the pop-up menu. Clicking the Update button displays the currently selected plot on the axes.

The GUI also has a menu with three items:

• Selecting Open displays a dialog from which you can open files on your computer.
• Selecting Print executes the printdlg command, which opens the Print dialog:

• printdlg(handles.figure1)
  

• Note that handles.figure1 contains the current plot. Clicking Yes in the Print dialog prints the plot.

• Selecting Close closes the GUI.

GUI with UIcontrols

Modal Question Dialog