GUI development advice

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tlawren
tlawren on 16 Feb 2012
Edited: Cedric on 15 Oct 2013
I'm currently developing a data acquisition, processing, and visiualization tool using GUIDE, but the things I want (need) to do are growing increasingly complex. The project statred out as a simple little tool and it is now turning into a full blown application. Is Matlab and/or GUIDE a good choice for building standalone applications? Would using a combination of say Java and Matlab be better? Is it possible to build an applications framework and "bookkeeping" functionality in Java and then use Matlab for numerical work? I would also like to make something that is visually appealing.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 16 Feb 2012
GUIDE is fairly primitive, although you can add third party ActiveX COM objects to spice up your GUI with snazzy widgets. If you want a fancy, pretty, complicated user interface you'll have to look elsewhere as GUIDE is somewhat basic. They've been telling me for about 3-4 years now that a major overhaul of GUIDE is underway - I'm not holding my breath for it. You can use Java or Microsoft Visual Studio to design beautiful interfaces and then pass the necessary parameters to your MATLAB engine that runs in the background. There are toolboxes for that, such as NE Builder. Look under the "Application Deployment" section of this web page: http://www.mathworks.com/products/
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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 17 Feb 2012
Why aren't you able to add in a third party control? You should be able to find some for free or at low cost. There's an icon for placing them in GUIDE. Just click the icon, pick the OCX (or whatever) of the widget you want, and place it on your figure. Have you tried that?
tlawren
tlawren on 17 Feb 2012
I do have the ability to add Active X controls in GUIDE on Windows, but not in Linux. The button you are speaking about is not there on my Linux machines.

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tlawren
tlawren on 17 Feb 2012

Yair Altman
Yair Altman on 29 Feb 2012
http://UndocumentedMatlab.com is full of examples of how you can really spice up your Matlab GUI using Java, which is free and built-in. And it is even relatively simple so you will have fun doing it.

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