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Axes properties: Toolbar in a GUI

Elijah — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:05:05 -0400

Yo
I want to add toolbars to my gui, so when the user plots
stuff, he can zoom in to make sure everything works out
great. doc axes_props has nothing about toolbars, and I'm
sorta at a loss. Is this a pipe dream or can it be done?

Check out this picture for an in-depth depiction of what I'm
looking for...
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e372/elijahauger/kthx.jpg

-eli

Re: Axes properties: Toolbar in a GUI

roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400

In article <g0c76h$nom$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
Elijah <eli.auger@harley-davidson.com> wrote:

>I want to add toolbars to my gui, so when the user plots
>stuff, he can zoom in to make sure everything works out
>great. doc axes_props has nothing about toolbars, and I'm
>sorta at a loss. Is this a pipe dream or can it be done?

In Matlab, toolbars can -only- go at the top, never within an axes.

You can create a toolbar using uitoolbar()

  ht = uitoolbar('PropertyName1',value1,'PropertyName2',value2,...)
  creates an empty toolbar at the top of the current figure window, and
  returns a handle to it.

And if you look at the Uitoolbar Properties help you can see that
the Parent can only be a figure, and there is no Position property.
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Re: Axes properties: Toolbar in a GUI

Steven Lord — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:45:24 -0400

"Walter Roberson" <roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote in message
news:g0ceie$h12$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca...
> In article <g0c76h$nom$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
> Elijah <eli.auger@harley-davidson.com> wrote:
>
>>I want to add toolbars to my gui, so when the user plots
>>stuff, he can zoom in to make sure everything works out
>>great. doc axes_props has nothing about toolbars, and I'm
>>sorta at a loss. Is this a pipe dream or can it be done?
>
> In Matlab, toolbars can -only- go at the top, never within an axes.
>
> You can create a toolbar using uitoolbar()
>
> ht = uitoolbar('PropertyName1',value1,'PropertyName2',value2,...)
> creates an empty toolbar at the top of the current figure window, and
> returns a handle to it.
>
> And if you look at the Uitoolbar Properties help you can see that
> the Parent can only be a figure, and there is no Position property.

If the OP wants the default figure toolbar in their GUI, changing the
figure's Toolbar property to 'figure' is probably sufficient.

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/figure_props.html#Toolbar

--
Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com

Re: Axes properties: Toolbar in a GUI

Elijah — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:54:02 -0400

Thanks for the responses, guys. I figured out what I wanted...

in the OpeningFcn, I added this line before updating guidata:

set(hObject,'toolbar','figure');

It's rad.