Thread Subject: Disabling SAVE button on GUIDE-generated GUIs

I have a question I couldn't readily find the answer to in the
archive. Here's the deal:

I have some GUI applications I have made with GUIDE, and need to have
the toolbar enabled so I can access the nifty pan and zoom and data
tip buttons (the figure property ToolBar is 'auto' for these).

However, this enables a pesky little save button (the disk icon).
Unless I make the GUI .fig file read-only, hitting this little button
will overwrite the .fig file with the current one, causing much
suffering and hellfire later.

So, is there anyway to:

1) disable that individual save button? I can't find any documentation
on this property.

OR:

2) create a toolbar with just the icons I want on it?

Any help is appreciated as always.

thanks,
Paul

 Paul <gtrpaul@gmail.com> wrote in message
<1191956628.072976.241220@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>...
> I have a question I couldn't readily find the answer to in the
> archive. Here's the deal:
>
> I have some GUI applications I have made with GUIDE, and
need to have
> the toolbar enabled so I can access the nifty pan and zoom
and data
> tip buttons (the figure property ToolBar is 'auto' for these).
>
> However, this enables a pesky little save button (the disk
icon).
> Unless I make the GUI .fig file read-only, hitting this
little button
> will overwrite the .fig file with the current one, causing
much
> suffering and hellfire later.
>
> So, is there anyway to:
>
> 1) disable that individual save button? I can't find any
documentation
> on this property.
>
> OR:
>
> 2) create a toolbar with just the icons I want on it?
>
> Any help is appreciated as always.
>
> thanks,
> Paul


Here's how to disable the save button & menu option:
set(findall(gcf,'tag','Standard.SaveFigure'),'enable','off');
set(findall(gcf,'tag','figMenuFileSave'),'enable','off');

You can hide (instead of disable) these elements by setting
the 'visible' property instead of 'enable'.

AFAIK, these are undocumented/unsupported - TMW don't like
people playing around with their default menus/toolbars. It
work great, though.

Yair Altman
http://ymasoftware.com

> Here's how to disable the save button & menu option:
> set(findall(gcf,'tag','Standard.SaveFigure'),'enable','off');
> set(findall(gcf,'tag','figMenuFileSave'),'enable','off');
>
> You can hide (instead of disable) these elements by setting
> the 'visible' property instead of 'enable'.

Can you give the Tags for the other buttons e.g. Rotate 3D

In article <g4avbs$e3m$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
Joerg <joerg.dickert@tu-dresden.de> wrote:
>> Here's how to disable the save button & menu option:
>> set(findall(gcf,'tag','Standard.SaveFigure'),'enable','off');
>> set(findall(gcf,'tag','figMenuFileSave'),'enable','off');

>Can you give the Tags for the other buttons e.g. Rotate 3D

>> get(findall(gcf,'-regexp','Tag','.'),'Tag')

ans =

    'figMenuWindow'
    'figMenuDesktop'
    'figMenuTools'
    'figMenuInsert'
    'figMenuView'
    'figMenuEdit'
    'figMenuFile'
    'FigureToolBar'
    'figMenuHelpAbout'
    'figMenuHelpActivation'
    'figMenuHelpUpdates'
    'figMenuWeb'
    'figMenuToolsBFDS'
    'figMenuToolsBFDS'
    'figMenuToolsAlign'
    'figMenuToolsAlign'
    'figMenuViewGrid'
    'figMenuSnapToGrid'
    'figMenuEditPinning'
    'figMenuOptions'
    'figMenuResetView'
    'figMenuDatatip'
    'figMenuRotate3D'
    'figMenuPan'
    'figMenuZoomOut'
    'figMenuZoomIn'
    'figMenuToolsPlotedit'
    'figMenuInsertLight'
    'figMenuInsertAxes'
    'figMenuInsertEllipse'
    'figMenuInsertRectangle'
    'figMenuInsertTextbox'
    'figMenuInsertArrow2'
    'figMenuInsertTextArrow'
    'figMenuInsertArrow'
    'figMenuInsertLine'
    'figMenuInsertColorbar'
    'figMenuInsertLegend'
    'figMenuInsertTitle'
    'figMenuInsertZLabel'
    'figMenuInsertYLabel'
    'figMenuInsertXLabel'
    'figMenuPropertyEditor'
    'figMenuPlotBrowser'
    'figMenuFigurePalette'
    'figMenuPloteditToolbar'
    'figMenuCameraToolbar'
    'figMenuFigureToolbar'
    'figMenuEditClearWorkspace'
    'figMenuEditClearCmdHistory'
    'figMenuEditClearCmdWindow'
    'figMenuEditColormap'
    'figMenuEditGCO'
    'figMenuEditGCA'
    'figMenuEditGCF'
    'figMenuEditSelectAll'
    'figMenuEditDelete'
    'figMenuEditClear'
    'figMenuEditPaste'
    'figMenuEditCopy'
    'figMenuEditCut'
    'figMenuEditRedo'
    'figMenuEditUndo'
    'figMenuFileExitMatlab'
    'figMenuFilePreferences'
    'figMenuFileSaveWorkspaceAs'
    'figMenuFileSaveAs'
    'figMenuFileSave'
    'Plottools.PlottoolsOn'
    'Plottools.PlottoolsOff'
    'Annotation.InsertLegend'
    'Annotation.InsertColorbar'
    'Exploration.DataCursor'
    'Exploration.Rotate'
    'Exploration.Pan'
    'Exploration.ZoomOut'
    'Exploration.ZoomIn'
    'Standard.EditPlot'
    'Standard.PrintFigure'
    'Standard.SaveFigure'
    'Standard.FileOpen'
    'Standard.NewFigure'
    'figMenuWebAccountSub'
    'figMenuWebStore'
    'figMenuWebStudentCenter'
    'figMenuWebStudentFAQ'
    'figMenuWebStudentAccount'
    'figMenuOptionsDataBar'
    'figMenuOptionsDatatip'
    'figMenuOptionsYPan'
    'figMenuOptionsXPan'
    'figMenuOptionsXYPan'
    'figMenuOptionsYZoom'
    'figMenuOptionsXZoom'
    'figMenuOptionsXYZoom'
    'figMenuFileNewVariable'
    'figMenuFileNewModel'


(The -regexp part of the above findall selects only those items that have
a non-empty tag.)
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