guidegetter

Creates a standalone M-file GUI from a guide made GUI.

Description

This tool is useful when one wants to create a GUI from a standalone M-file, but would like to use guide for it's excellent ability to position the GUI objects within the GUI. guidegetter works by first fetching the layout of the uicontrols, uimenus and other objects from a guide generated .fig file. Then an M-file is created that will generate the same GUI without the use of a fig file. The new M-file can then be used to complete the GUI project (write callbacks, etc).

See the help for more information. Please email me about bugs.
Tested on 6.5 2006a and 2007a.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)

[matt fig (author)]

Someone found a bug already with version 2006a. Apparently in this version you cannot create a uibuttongroup the same way as in 2007a. You must specifically identify the parent property in the declaration when making a uibuttongroup the child of a uipanel, as opposed to simply listing the parent handle first like you can for other objects. I have added this to line 198 and will post an updated version.

[Gary Rubin]

Haven't tried it yet, but I love the idea! I was planning on building the same thing myself when I had the time.

[T. Janis]

Excellent! Great! Finally! I like this WAAAYYYYY better than the guess-and-check method of positioning my GUI.

[J. Luis]

Matt,
You may find interesting my desGUIDE function
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=5834&objectType=FILE

[Matt Fig]

A user has found that guidegetter will not deal with uicontextmenus, I will post an update shortly.

[Jeff Micat]

Thank you. It does what you say.

[Thierry Dalon]

Unfortunately like you can see in the example picture, the String properties are renamed by <uicontroltype>_<counter> so you loose this information defined in GUIDE.

[Thierry Dalon]

Because of problem see review below, change line 165 to
p.onm{ii}=get(p.oh(ii),'String'); % TD

[Matt Fig]

Thanks Thierry, but what you describe is not actually a problem. This was done on purpose and the reason is explained in the help. Basically, the names of the objects match the handles in the M-file to allow one to quickly identify which line of code creates which object in the GUI. Of course all of this can be changed by the user by simply replacing the string property value in the M-file, which should be done anyway if a GUI is to be useful.

[Thierry Dalon]

FX 14340 generate_m_file is much better.

[Dave S.]

Helps a lot.

[Gary Cole]

I find this real useful. Great idea. The Mathworks needs to do away with figure files made by GUIDE anyway.

[Ransef Sindet]

I like you program. Can you help me with my gui? I am stuck with callback.
email me to: [e-mail]
Thanks.

[Roy]

Very good. Thanks. A pity is that the program cannot get the original name of those elements.