Example - Dynamic GUI Layout

This example shows how you can build a GUI with dynamic UI component positioning

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This example demonstrates how you can build a GUI with dynamic positioning of UI components (no distortions).
It is a simple GUI with an axis, slider, and a push button. The slider changes the coefficient in the equation:

y = sin(C*x) + cos((10-C)*x)

And it plots the equation. The push button resets the coefficient to 4.

The figure has a ResizeFcn defined so that every time the figure is resized, it re-positions the components. It keeps the size of the push button the same, and the slider and the axis fill the rest of the screen.

Try:
Resizing the figure window, and notice the size of the UI components.

This was a File Exchange Pick of the Week:
http://blogs.mathworks.com/pick/2008/02/15/gui-layout-part-1/

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Jiro Doke (2026). Example - Dynamic GUI Layout (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/18769-example-dynamic-gui-layout), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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