Thread Subject: GUI interconnect toggle buttons

I am building a complex GUI to control a microscope system
with several functions. The plan is to use toggle buttons
to choose, for example, different objective lenses. How
can I "connect" a few buttons so that only one of them may
be active at a time?

A smaller, related issue, how can I change the appearance
or color of the pressed button so that it is very clear
which one is activated? The default change is not dramatic
enough and needs to be very clear...

Thanks,
Daphne

"Daphne " <daphnew_too_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
<fkrqfs$oqt$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
>
> I am building a complex GUI to control a microscope system
> with several functions. The plan is to use toggle buttons
> to choose, for example, different objective lenses. How
> can I "connect" a few buttons so that only one of them may
> be active at a time?
>
> A smaller, related issue, how can I change the appearance
> or color of the pressed button so that it is very clear
> which one is activated? The default change is not dramatic
> enough and needs to be very clear...
>
> Thanks,
> Daphne


You could do it manually. You can set the toggle status of
each button by set(handles.TAG,'Value',1) or
set(handles.TAG,'Value',0).
With set(handles.TAG,'BackgroundColor',[r g b]) you are able
to change the color of a button.


Regards,
Stephan Hoffmann

In article <fkrqfs$oqt$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
Daphne <daphnew_too_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:

>I am building a complex GUI to control a microscope system
>with several functions. The plan is to use toggle buttons
>to choose, for example, different objective lenses. How
>can I "connect" a few buttons so that only one of them may
>be active at a time?

uibuttongroup()
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  "Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath
  been already of old time, which was before us." -- Ecclesiastes

Try this tutorial. It covers what you want to do.

http://www.blinkdagger.com/matlab/matlab-gui-tutorial-buttons-button-group

Good luck!