Using GUIDE Templates :: Laying Out GUIs and Setting Properties (Creating Graphical User Interfaces)

Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Using GUIDE Templates

GUIDE provides several templates, which are simple examples that you can modify to create your own GUIs. The templates are fully functional GUIs: their callbacks are already programmed. You can view the code for these callbacks to see how they work, and then modify the callbacks for your own purposes.

You can access the templates in two ways:

Start GUIDE by entering guide at the MATLAB prompt.
If GUIDE is already open, select New from the File menu in the Layout Editor.

Starting GUIDE displays the GUIDE Quick Start dialog as shown in the following figure.

Guide quick start dialog box

The Quick Start dialog gives you two options:

Select the Open Existing GUI tab and open a GUI that you have already created.
Select the Create New GUI tab and open one of the templates.

The preceding figure shows the Quick Start dialog with the Create New GUI tab selected. Selecting a template in the left pane displays a preview in the right pane. Clicking OK opens the GUI template in the Layout Editor. If you select Save on startup as and type in name in the field to the right, GUIDE saves the GUI before opening it in the Layout Editor. If you choose not to save the GUI at this point, GUIDE prompts you to save it the first time you run the GUI.

GUIDE provides four templates, which are described in the following sections:

To view the M-file for any of these templates, open the template in the Layout Editor and click the M-file Editor icon on the toolbar.

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