MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

14 Examples of UIs Created Programmatically

Program List Master

The List Master UI code file contains 22 functions, organized into five groups, which are

described below.

List Master Main Program

The main function, listmaster, opens a figure window. Then, listmaster calls the

local function, lm_make_file_menu, to create the File menu. The following table

describes the menu items and lists their callbacks.

Menu Item How Used Callback

Open... Opens an existing List Master figure lmopen

New... Creates a List Master by adding controls

to the initial UI or to a new figure if the

existing one already contains a list

lmnew

Import

list...

Loads list data from a workspace cell array lmwsimport

Export

list...

Creates a cell array or text file containing the

current list

lmwsexport,

lmfileexport

Save Saves current List Master and its contents as

a FIG-file

lmsave

Save as... Saves current List Master to a different FIG-

file

lmsaveas

Quit Exits List Master, with option to save first lmquit

After creating a blank UI with a File menu, the listmaster function exits.

The main function sets up the figure as follows:

fh = figure('MenuBar','none', ...

'NumberTitle','off', ...

'Name','ListMaster', ...

'Tag','lmfigtag', ...

'CloseRequestFcn', @lmquit, ...

'Units','pixels', ...

'Position', pos);

Turning off the MenuBar eliminates the default figure window menus, which the

program later replaces with its own File menu. NumberTitle is turned off to eliminate a

figure number in its title bar.