Thread Subject: Is it possible to place an image on a GUI button?

.. or am I limited to text? If yes, I would appreciate a
brief example.

Thanks!

In article <fgihlf$7u2$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
Dimitri Shvorob <not.dimitri.shvorob@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>.. or am I limited to text? If yes, I would appreciate a
>brief example.

Try Doug Schwarz's "uibutton" FEX contribution.

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"Dimitri Shvorob" <not.dimitri.shvorob@vanderbilt.edu> wrote
in message <fgihlf$7u2$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> .. or am I limited to text? If yes, I would appreciate a
> brief example.
>
> Thanks!

Take a look at the Buttons submission on the File Exchange:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=2378
or this one:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=12033

Yair Altman
http://ymasoftware.com

"Dimitri Shvorob" <not.dimitri.shvorob@vanderbilt.edu> wrote in message
<fgihlf$7u2$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> .. or am I limited to text? If yes, I would appreciate a
> brief example.
>
> Thanks!

Pushbuttons and toggle buttons have a 'cdata' property that takes a matrix of
colors to create an image. I remember using small bmp files to customize
buttons for an application I wrote. Here is a 4-line example:

>>[image_pic, image_map] =
imread('http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/images/topnav/mlc_logo.
gif');

>>image_rgb = ind2rgb(image_pic,image_map);

>>button = uicontrol('style','pushbutton','position',[10 10 im_width+20
im_height+20])

>>set(button,'cdata',image_rgb)

The ind2rgb part is needed only because I'm starting from a .gif image; if it
was bmp, it would already be in the correct rgb format.

hth
Lorenzo

Many thanks to everyone who responded!