Thread Subject:

find background colour of toolbar

How can I find out the background colour of a toolbar created by GUIDE? Maybe I need to use an undocumented feature?

Thanks
David

On Nov 26, 6:21 am, "David Epstein"
<David.Epstein.s...@remove.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> How can I find out the background colour of a toolbar created by GUIDE? Maybe I need to use an undocumented feature?
>
> Thanks
> David

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Since the background of the colorbar is just the figure it's sitting
on top of, wouldn't the background color of the colorbar just be the
same as the color of the figure?
backgroundColor = get(gcf, 'color')

ImageAnalyst <imageanalyst@mailinator.com> wrote

> Since the background of the colorbar is just the figure it's sitting
> on top of, wouldn't the background color of the colorbar just be the
> same as the color of the figure?
> backgroundColor = get(gcf, 'color')

In the gui that I've made with GUIDE, the colour of the toolbar (btw, note it's called the toolbar by GUIDE, not the colorbar) is quite a lot whiter than the background colour of the containing gui (or gcf).

I have been able to guess the colour by trial and error, but that's not a very pleasant process.

David

Oh, *that*. I'm pretty sure that's a operating system color - isn't
it the same color as your pulldown menus, and (in Windows) that's
controlled by your control panel settings. I don't know if there is a
way to retrieve those from MATLAB, but maybe someone knows.

"David Epstein" <David.Epstein.spam@remove.warwick.ac.uk> wrote in message <ico571$p91$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> How can I find out the background colour of a toolbar created by GUIDE? Maybe I need to use an undocumented feature?
>
> Thanks
> David

Of course you do, and the obvious place to look would be http://UndocumentedMatlab.com ...

In this specific case:
hToolbar = findall(hFig,'tag','FigureToolBar');
jToolbar = get(get(hToolbar,'JavaContainer'),'ComponentPeer');
backgroundColor = get(jToolbar,'Background');

More information: http://UndocumentedMatlab.com/blog/figure-toolbar-customizations/

Related:
http://undocumentedmatlab.com/?s=toolbar
http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/modifying-default-toolbar-menubar-actions/
http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/figure-toolbar-components/

Yair Altman
http://UndocumentedMatlab.com