ButtonGroup Objects

Container objects to manage radio or toggle buttons with functionality of the GUI Layout Toolbox

Description

The ButtonGroup controls require the GUI Layout Toolbox by Ben Tordoff and David
Sampson available at:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/27758-gui-layout-toolbox
The controls in this submissionshould be placed in the +uiextras folder in the GUI Layout Toolbox or in another folder called +uiextras that resides under a folder on your path. It is recommended to run rehash path after doing this.

EXample:
function buttonGroupExample
    f = figure;
    vb = uiextras.VBox('Parent',f,'Units','Normalized');
    bgH = uiextras.HButtonGroup('Parent',vb,'Buttons',{'1','2','3'},'Spacing',50,'Padding',10,'SelectedChild',1,'SelectionChangeFcn',@onSelectionChange);
    hb = uiextras.HBox('Parent',vb);
    bgV = uiextras.VButtonGroup('Parent',hb,'ButtonStyle','toggle','Buttons',('123')','Spacing',20,'Padding',10,'SelectedChild',3,'SelectionChangeFcn',@onSelectionChange);
    p = uiextras.Panel('Parent',hb);
    set(hb,'Sizes',[100,-1]);
    lblDisplay = uicontrol('Parent',p,'FontSize',16,'Style','text');
    onSelectionChange([],[]);
    function onSelectionChange(src,evt)
        disp(evt);
        set(lblDisplay,'String',int2str([bgH.SelectedChild,bgV.SelectedChild]));
    end %onSelectionChange
end %buttonGroupExample

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
GUI Layout Toolbox

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.12 (2011a)

[Henry Harrison]

Thanks for this, Matthew. One question though. There may be an issue with maintaining the 'Enable' setting of the children. In my GUI I have a toolbar, and some tools are only available in certain situations. Setting the children's 'Enable' state works fine, until I select a tool, at which point all disabed buttons become enabled.

There is an easy workaround, of course, to re-disable the disabled buttons at the end of the callback function. However I though I would bring the issue to your attention.