Creating Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), MATLAB® Version 7.6 (R2008a) Release Notes

Creating Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), MATLAB^® Version 7.6 (R2008a)

New features and changes introduced in this version are:

• New GUI Table Component

• Event Data Input to GUIDE Callbacks

• uigetfile and uiputfile Support of '.', '..', and '/'

• hidegui Function Being Obsoleted

New GUI Table Component

The new uitable component allows you to show data in a table. This component replaces the undocumented MATLAB^® uitable implementation. If you are using the old uitable component, please refer to the uitable Migration Document for help migrating to the supported uitable component.

Event Data Input to GUIDE Callbacks

Auto-generated callbacks of GUIDE GUIs can now access event data for HG callbacks. The following HG callbacks provide event data when triggered:

• KeyPressFcn in uicontrol and figure

• KeyReleaseFcn in figure

• SelectionChangeFcn in uibuttonGroup

• WindowKeyPressFcn in figure

• WindowKeyReleaseFcn in figure

• WindowScrollWheelFcn in figure

• CellEditCallback in uitable

• CellSelectionCallback in uitable

For example, the event data for keypress provides information on the key that is pressed. See the Callback Templates documentation for more information.

uigetfile and uiputfile Support of '.', '..', and '/'

Starting in R2007b, the uigetfile and uiputfile functions interpret '.', '..', and '/' the same way as does the cd command. '.' is interpreted as the current directory, '..' is the directory above the current directory, and '/' is the top level directory. When specifying a directory rather than a filename for either the Filterspec or DefaultName argument, you no longer need to end the string with a '/'. However, such strings ending with a '/' are interpreted as they were in previous releases.

hidegui Function Being Obsoleted

The hidegui function is being obsoleted and will be removed in a future version. Instead of this function use the set function to set the figure handle's handlevisibility property to on or off:

set(figurehandle, ‘handlevisibility', 'on') 

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