MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

(^1) Use the Property Inspector to modify the appropriate properties. Open the Property
Inspector by selecting View > Property Inspector or by clicking the Property
Inspector button.
(^2) In the layout area, select the component you are defining.
Subsequent topics describe commonly used properties of axes and offer a simple example.

• “Commonly Used Properties” on page 6-45


• “Create Axes” on page 6-46

Commonly Used Properties

The most commonly used properties needed to describe an axes are shown in the
following table:

Property Values Description

NextPlot add, replace,

replacechildren. Default

is replace

Specifies whether plotting

adds graphics, replaces

graphics and resets axes

properties to default, or

replaces graphics only.

Position 4-element vector: [distance

from left, distance from

bottom, width, height].

Size of the component and

its location relative to its

parent.

Units normalized,

centimeters,

characters, inches,

pixels, points. Default is

normalized.

Units of measurement used

to interpret position vector

For a complete list of properties and for more information about the properties listed in
the table, see Axes.

See commands such as the following for more information on axes objects: plot, surf,
line, bar, polar, pie, contour, imagesc, and mesh.

Many of these graphing functions reset axes properties by default, according to the
setting of its NextPlot property, which can cause unwanted behavior, such as resetting
axis limits and removing axes context menus and callbacks. See “Create Axes” on page 6-
46 and “Axes” on page 9-20 for information about setting the NextPlot property.

Add Components to the GUIDE Layout Area