MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Migration

Tool

Features

Description

Componen

ts and App

Layout

• Convert components and property configurations to App Designer
  equivalents.


• Preserve the layout of the apps.

Callback

Code

• Retain a copy of the GUIDE callback code and user-defined functions in
  the .mlapp file.


• Provide suggestions for manual update.

App Designer uses new components and object-oriented code. Interactions or

behaviors that you programmed in your old GUIDE-style code need to be

manually migrated to App Designer-style code.

Migration

Report

• Summarize actions successfully completed by the migration tool.


• List any limitations or unsupported functionality, with workarounds if
  available.


• Provide steps for updating callbacks to make them compatible with App
  Designer.

Aids for Migrating GUIDE Code to App Designer

App Designer and GUIDE have different code structures, callback syntaxes, and
techniques for accessing UI components and sharing data. Understanding these
differences is useful when migrating code. The table below summarizes some of these
differences.

Migrating GUIDE Apps to App Designer