Using layouts inside GUIDE GUIs

6: Using layouts inside GUIDE GUIs

Whilst the layouts in this toolbox do not integrate into the MATLAB Graphical User Interface Design Environment (GUIDE), it is possible to insert layouts into a GUIDE-built GUI as follows:

Create the GUIDE GUI

Create you GUIDE application as usual, placing a panel where you want to insert the layout. You can turn the panel border and title off if you do not want them.

Insert the layout

Edit the "OpeningFcn" in the GUIDE-created code and insert your layout into the panel, making it fill the space. In the example below four boxpanels are inserted into a grid, which itself is placed inside uipanel1:

% --- Executes just before guideApp is made visible. 
function guideApp_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin)

% Choose default command line output for guideApp 
handles.output = hObject;

% Update handles structure 
guidata(hObject, handles);

% Put a layout in the panel 
g = uiextras.GridFlex( 'Parent', handles.uipanel1, ...
    'Units', 'Normalized', 'Position', [0 0 1 1], ...
    'Spacing', 5 );
uiextras.BoxPanel( 'Parent', g, 'Title', 'Panel 1' );
uiextras.BoxPanel( 'Parent', g, 'Title', 'Panel 2' );
uiextras.BoxPanel( 'Parent', g, 'Title', 'Panel 3' );
uiextras.BoxPanel( 'Parent', g, 'Title', 'Panel 4' );
g.RowSizes = [-1 -1];

(Full source code for this application is available here: [ view | edit | run ] )