MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

10 Lay Out a Programmatic UI

The first uicontrol argument, f, specifies the parent container. In this case, the parent

is a figure, but you can also specify the parent to be any container, such as a panel or

button group.

The name-value pair arguments, 'Style','text' specify the uicontrol to be static text.

'String','Select a set' specifys the text that displays. If you specify a component

width that is too small to accommodate the specified String, MATLAB wraps the string.

'Position',[30 50 130 30] specifies the location and size of the static text. In this

example, the static text is 130 pixels wide and 20 high. It is positioned 30 pixels from the

left of the figure and 50 pixels from the bottom.

Editable Text Field

This code creates an editable text field, txtbox:

f = figure;

txtbox = uicontrol(f,'Style','edit',...

'String','Enter your name here.',...

'Position',[30 50 130 20]);

The first uicontrol argument, f, specifies the parent container. In this case, the parent

is a figure, but you can also specify the parent to be any container, such as a panel or

button group.

The name-value pair arguments, 'Style','edit', specify the style of the uicontrol to

be an editable text field.