uibutton: GUI pushbuttons with better labels

Creates pushbutton uicontrol labeled with TeX or LaTeX strings.

Description

Have you ever wanted to create a pushbutton uicontrol containing a Greek letter, some other mathematical expression or even just a multi-line label? This function will do it for you. It is very easy to use as it accepts all the same arguments as uicontrol with the addition of the Interpreter property which you can set to 'tex' or 'latex'. Also, you can pass in a cell array of strings for the String property to get a multi-line label. For example,

  uibutton('String','Set \beta','Interpreter','tex')

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; 3D Puma Robot Demo
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.4 (R14SP2)

[Peter Nave]

 

[Jiro Doke]

Very nice. I like how you create an image and use that as an ICON for the buttons. This guarantees that it behaves exactly like uicontrols.

One comment: when the style is TEXT, it creates a text object. In the code, you comment that it doesn't return the handle because it is not a UICONTROL. You should probably say something about that in the help text. Also, if someone (by mistake) asks for the handles, as in h=uibutton('style', 'text', ...), it gives an error because hout is not assigned. Maybe there's a better response to this, such as returning an empty variable or displaying a message.

[ebrahim sepidbar]

pushbotton

[Trevor Fichera]

Just what I needed. I am using it in Matlab Ver. 6.5.0 (R13.0.1). I had trouble with the isscalar(h) command, but I replaced it with ~any(size(h)-1) and it works great.
For multiline text buttons, try
uibutton(h,'String',' Print\newlineReport','HorizontalAlignment','center')
where h is the handle of an existing uicontrol button.

If anyone knows of a good LaTeX reference online, I would appreciate the post.

[Agnieszka Herman]

Great! Works without any problems and it saved me really lots of time. Thank you!

[ding lu]

very good

[Micke M]

I would like to know where in the GUI-code to put the uibutton(...);

(For those of us that are quite new to GUIs)

[Matthew Adler]

When I try to run this I get an error. I am able to generate the pushbutton with greek symbol, to size it and place it in the position I want with code:

alpha_button = uibutton('String','\alpha','Interpreter','tex','Position', [219 570 50 25]);

When I execute my GUI, however, the callback from my main pushbutton is not accessed. Also, if I move the symbol pushbutton into any position with 'position' I get the following error:

Error in ==> getframe at 35
  x=capturescreen(varargin{:});

Error in ==> uibutton at 146
frame = getframe(ax);

Error in ==> lcgui>lcgui_OutputFcn at 78
alpha_rand = uibutton('String','\alpha','Interpreter','tex','Position', [219 570 50 25]);

Error in ==> gui_mainfcn at 248
        [varargout{1:nargout}] = feval(gui_State.gui_OutputFcn, gui_hFigure, [], gui_Handles);

Error in ==> lcgui at 40
    [varargout{1:nargout}] = gui_mainfcn(gui_State, varargin{:});

Error in ==> Lehigh_Corrosion_Fatigue at 10
set(lcgui,'HandleVisibility','on')

??? Error using ==> Lehigh_Corrosion_Fatigue
Error using ==> capturescreen
The rectangle passed to getframe must be at least partially on screen.

??? Error while evaluating uicontrol Callback

[Emery]