MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Add Components to the GUIDE Layout Area

2 In the layout area, select the component you are defining.

NoteSee “GUIDE Components” on page 6-13 for a description of this component.

Subsequent topics describe commonly used properties of axes and offer a simple example.

• “Commonly Used Properties” on page 6- 51


• “Create Axes” on page 6- 52

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 Properties.

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 in a UI, such
as resetting axis limits and removing axes context menus and callbacks. See “Create