MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Create Toolbars for Programmatic UIs

Create Toolbars for Programmatic UIs

In this section...

“Use the uitoolbar Function” on page 10- 79

“Commonly Used Properties” on page 10- 79

“Toolbars” on page 10- 80

“Display and Modify the Standard Toolbar” on page 10- 83

Use the uitoolbar Function

Use the uitoolbar function to add a custom toolbar to your UI. Use the uipushtool

and uitoggletool functions to add push tools and toggle tools to a toolbar. A push tool

functions as a push button. A toggle tool functions as a toggle button. You can add push

tools and toggle tools to the standard toolbar or to a custom toolbar.

Syntaxes for the uitoolbar, uipushtool, and uitoggletool functions include the

following:

tbh = uitoolbar(fh,'PropertyName',PropertyValue,...)

pth = uipushtool(tnh,'PropertyName',PropertyValue,...)

tth = uitoggletool(tbh,'PropertyName',PropertyValue,...)

The output arguments, tbh, pth, and tth are the handles, respectively, of the resulting

toolbar, push tool, and toggle tool. See the uitoolbar, uipushtool, and uitoggletool

reference pages for other valid syntaxes.

Subsequent topics describe commonly used properties of toolbars and toolbar tools, offer

a simple example, and discuss use of the MATLAB standard toolbar:

Commonly Used Properties

The most commonly used properties needed to describe a toolbar and its tools are shown

in the following table.

Property Values Description

CData 3-D array of values

between 0.0 and 1.0

n-by-m-by-3 array of RGB values

that defines a truecolor image