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Subject: Re: Wish List Item - Different Extension for GUIDE figure templates
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 19:54:01 +0000 (UTC)
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Thanks for all the advice about building my GUIs from
scratch.  That was the way I started out, but really liked
the WYSIWYG aspect of GUIDE - no need to guess the proper
position values to get things in the right place.  

I like Matt's approach below:


"Matt Fig" <spamanon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
<g0sg3p$jkv$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> About the only thing I use guide for is to lay out my GUIs
> quickly.  If I want to build a complicated GUI with lots of
> uicontrols, I will first create it in guide.  Then I copy
> and paste the 'position' properties into the file I will
> actually use to create my GUI.  This way the physical layout
> is quick and I still write my own file to get the control
> over the GUI and avoid the problems of having a .m and .fig
> file separately.
>