create a gui function in matlab

To create a GUI function in MATLAB, you can follow these general steps:

  1. Create a new function file (e.g. myGUIfunction.m) to store your code.
  2. Create a new figure window using the figure() command and set its properties, such as size and title.
  3. Add any UI components you want, such as buttons, text boxes or plots, using the various component-creation commands like uicontrol() and axes().
  4. Specify position, size and properties for each component you add, using commands like set() or get().
  5. Create callback functions for each component, which will be executed when the user interacts with that component.
  6. Use the handle variable to store the state of the GUI and freely communicate between different callback functions.
  7. Run the GUI using the guidata() command and link the callback functions to each component using the set() command.

Here's an example code snippet to create a basic GUI with a button and an axes for plotting data:

main.m
function myGUIfunction
    % Create the figure and components
    fig = figure('Name', 'My GUI', 'Position', [100, 100, 640, 480]);
    btn = uicontrol('Style', 'pushbutton', 'String', 'Plot', ...
                    'Position', [20, 20, 100, 40]);
    ax = axes('Parent', fig, 'Position', [0.3, 0.3, 0.6, 0.6]);

    % Set the button callback to plot some data in the axes
    set(btn, 'Callback', @plot_data);

    % Store the GUI state in its handle for easy communication
    handle = guihandles(fig);
    handle.ax = ax;

    % Initialize the GUI data
    handle.myData = [];

    % Save the updated handle for later
    guidata(fig, handle);
end

function plot_data(hObject, eventdata)
    % Access the GUI handle and data
    handle = guidata(hObject);
    myData = handle.myData;

    % Generate some data and store it in the handle
    newData = rand(1, 10);
    myData = [myData, newData];
    handle.myData = myData;

    % Plot the data in the axes
    axes(handle.ax);
    plot(myData);

    % Save the updated handle for later
    guidata(hObject, handle);
end
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