MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Managing Resizable Apps in App Designer

Apps you create in App Designer are resizable by default. The components reposition and

resize automatically as the user changes the size of the window at run-time. This

automatic resize behavior is controlled by the AutoResizeChildren property. By

default, this property is enabled for the figure and child containers such as panels and

tabs.

When the AutoResizeChildren property is enabled for a container, MATLAB manages

the size and position of only the immediate children in the container. Components in

nested containers are managed by the AutoResizeChildren property of their

immediate parent. To ensure that the alignment of components relative to one another

(like a grouping of buttons) is preserved when your app is resized, parent the grouping of

components to a panel, instead of directly to the figure.

Resizing Components with Normalized Position Units

When a child component of a resizable container has normalized position units, certain

properties of the component are affected after the parent container is resized. For

example,

If axes or charts use a value of 'normalized' for the Units property and are parented

to a container with the AutoResizeChildren property set to 'on', then

Managing Resizable Apps in App Designer