MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

6 Lay Out a UI Using GUIDE

Design Cross-Platform UIs in GUIDE

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“Default System Font” on page 6- 120

“Standard Background Color” on page 6- 121

“Cross-Platform Compatible Units” on page 6- 121

Default System Font

By default, user interface controls (uicontrols) use the default font for the platform

on which they are running. For example, when displaying your UI on PCs, uicontrols

use MS San Serif. When your program runs on a different platform, it uses that

computer's default font. This provides a consistent look with respect to your UI and other

applications.

If you have set the FontName property to a named font and want to return to the default

value, you can set the property to the string default. This ensures that the software

uses the system default at run-time.

You can use the Property Inspector to set this property:

As an alternative, use the set command to set the property in the UI code file.

For example, if there is a push button in your UI and its handle is stored in the

pushbutton1 field of the handles structure, then the statement

set(handles.pushbutton1,'FontName','default')

sets the FontName property to use the system default.