UIFigure limit Menu Bar in App Designer

Matlab Designers,

I created an app with menu bar in AppDesigner. App screen is below:

Then I run it. The results are shown：

But when I narrowed uifigure width, Menu bar was limited by uifigure. As we can see below:

Were there mistakes with properties? I can't fix it yet!

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

Thank you and keep up the great work!

Michael

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

No-can-do.

Even if you set app.UIFigure.Clipping = 'off';

At least as of r2020a (and the foreseeable future) the components of a figure / uifigure / app must stay within the figure boundaries. That's probably a good rule. We wouldn't want to define objects that are children of a figure but extend outside of the figure boundaries.

Is there a reason you want your app to be very narrow?

[JiYuan Lee]

Thank you !

Actually, I want to create an app which just has a menu bar, as a main app. And then I can call other figures/app by the main app, which makes my app terse and friendly. Should I make it by guide?

But the guide will be removed. So I really hope to solve this problem by app designer !

[Adam Danz]

Neither figure nor uifigure will allow you to create a UI component that extends beyond the figure boundaries. So neither Guide, AppDesigner, nor uicontrol will allow for what you're describing.

If you want to create a base App that just contains a menu bar, you could set the figure to full screen size. The secondary apps that open could be overlay within the empty figure space.

To achieve this, add a StartupFcn function to the main app. In the startup function, maximize the UIFigure using,

function startupFcn(app)
    app.UIFigure.WindowState = 'Maximized'; 
end

[JiYuan Lee]

Thank you !

No offense! Actually, Guide can do what I describle.

[Adam Danz]

Oh, I wasn't aware of that. I stopped using GUIDE a while back. Thanks for sharing.