MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

10 Lay Out a Programmatic UI

Set Colors Interactively

Specifying colors for Color, ForegroundColor, BackgroundColor, FontColor, and

plotting object color properties can be difficult without seeing examples of colors. The

uisetcolor function opens a dialog that returns color values you can use to set these

properties. For example, this command opens a dialog that allows the user to choose a

color:

object_handle.BackgroundColor = uisetcolor;

When the user clicks OK, the uisetcolor function returns an RGB values.

You can combine setting position and color into one line of code or one function, for

example:

btn1 = uicontrol('String', 'Button 1',...

'Position',getrect,...

'BackgroundColor',uisetcolor)