MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

6 Lay Out a UI Using GUIDE

Locate and Move Components

You can locate or move components in one of the following ways:

In this section...

“Use Coordinate Readouts” on page 6- 74

“Drag Components” on page 6- 75

“Use Arrow Keys to Move Components” on page 6- 76

“Set the Component's Position Property” on page 6- 76

Another topic that may be of interest is

• “Align GUIDE UI Components” on page 6- 79

Use Coordinate Readouts

Coordinate readouts indicate where a component is placed and where the mouse pointer

is located. Use these readouts to position and align components manually. The Position

readout shows the position of the selected component as the vector, [x y width

height]. These values are displayed in units of pixels, regardless of the coordinate units

you select for the component.

The Current Point readout displays the current mouse position in pixels.

The size of this push button is 101-by-38 pixels. The lower left corner of the button is

located at x,y = (50,260). The mouse pointer is located at x,y = (156,255).