MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

10 Lay Out a Programmatic UI

Display the Standard Toolbar

Use the figure Toolbar property to display or hide the standard toolbar. Set Toolbar to

'figure' to display the standard toolbar. Set Toolbar to 'none' to hide it.

fh.Toolbar = 'figure'; % Display the standard toolbar

fh.Toolbar = 'none'; % Hide the standard toolbar

In these statements, fh is the handle of the figure.

The default ToolBar value is 'auto', which uses the MenuBar property value.

Modify the Standard Toolbar

Once you have the handle of the standard toolbar, you can add tools, delete tools, and

change the order of the tools.

Add a tool the same way you would add it to a custom toolbar. This code gets the handle

of the standard toolbar and adds a toggle tool to it.

tbh = findall(fh,'Type','uitoolbar');

tth = uitoggletool(tbh,'CData',rand(20,20,3),...

'Separator','on',...

'HandleVisibility','off');

To remove a tool from the standard toolbar, determine the handle of the tool to be

removed, and then use the delete function to remove it. The following code deletes the

toggle tool that was added to the standard toolbar above.

delete(tth)

If necessary, you can use the findall function to determine the handles of the tools on

the standard toolbar.