MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Property Values Description

CData 3-D array of values

between 0.0 and 1.0

n-by-m-by-3 array of RGB values that

defines a truecolor image displayed

on either a push button or toggle

button.

HandleVisibility on, off. Default is on. Determines if an object's handle is

visible in its parent's list of children.

For toolbars and their tools, set

HandleVisibility to off to

protect them from operations not

intended for them.

Separator off, on. Default is off. Draws a dividing line to left of the

push tool or toggle tool

State off, on. Default is off. Toggle tool state. on is the down, or

depressed, position. off is the up,

or raised, position.

Tooltip Character vector or

string scalar

Text of the tooltip associated with

the push tool or toggle tool.

For a complete list of properties and for more information about the properties listed in

the table, see the Uitoolbar, Uipushtool, and Uitoggletool.

Toolbars

The following statements add a toolbar to a figure, and then add a push tool and a toggle

tool to the toolbar. By default, the tools are added to the toolbar, from left to right, in the

order they are created.

% Create the toolbar

fh = figure;

tbh = uitoolbar(fh);

% Add a push tool to the toolbar

a = [.20:.05:0.95];

img1(:,:,1) = repmat(a,16,1)';

img1(:,:,2) = repmat(a,16,1);

img1(:,:,3) = repmat(flip(a),16,1);

pth = uipushtool(tbh,'CData',img1,...

'Tooltip','My push tool',...

9 Lay Out a Programmatic UI