sliderPanel

A new UICONTROL object with a slider as a child of a uipanel, with auto-linked edit box and labels.

Description

My new favorite uitool...this is quickly becoming an indispensable tool in my uicontrol arsenal.

FUNCTION:
sliderHandle,panelHandle,editHandle] = sliderPanel(parent, PanelPVs, SliderPVs, EditPVs, LabelPVs, numFormat)
 
Creates a slider in a separate uipanel, with an associated interactive EditBox, and left and right labels showing the minimum and maximum values of the slider, respectively.

Moving the slider automatically updates the textbox, and vice versa. Both slider movement and text edits will trigger (non-recursively) the callback of the slider.
 
The EditBox automatically disallows the entry of non-numeric values, or of values outside of [min,max]. Attempts to enter disallowed values will be ignored.
 
Two syntaxes are supported. One gives FULL control over all elements of the sliderPanel, and a second provides easier access to a subset of the functionality.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b)
• Other requirements: Created with 2006b and 2007a. I think it's platform-independent. I'm not sure how recent ML needs to be.

[John D'Errico]

Since most of the sliders I've ever generated also had exactly these uicontrols attached to them, this makes great sense. Thanks for posting it.

I tested it out in both R2006b and in R14SP1 (both on a Mac.) It worked nicely in R2006b, but in the older release, the slider bar would not move properly, and when the figure was resized, the slider bar moved to a different place in the figure. So there appear to be definite problems in older releases.