Creating Graphical User Interfaces

GUI FIG-Files and M-Files

GUIDE stores GUIs in two files, which are generated the first time you save or run the GUI:

• FIG-file - a file with extension .fig that contains a complete description of the GUI figure layout and the components of the GUI: push buttons, menus, axes, and so on. When you make changes to the GUI layout in the Layout Editor, your changes are saved in the FIG-file.
• M-file - a file with extension .m that contains the code that controls the GUI, including the callbacks for its components. This file is referred to as the GUI M-file. When you first run or save a GUI from the Layout Editor, GUIDE generates the GUI M-file with blank stubs for each of the callbacks. You can than program the callbacks using the M-file editor.

Note    In the documentation for releases prior to Release 13, the GUI M-file was referred to as the "application M-file."

GUIDE - GUI Development Environment

Using GUIDE Templates