Creating Graphical User Interfaces

Creating Menus -- The Menu Editor

MATLAB enables you to create two kinds of menus:

• Menu bar objects -- drop-down menus whose titles appear on the figure menu bar.
• Context menu objects -- pop up when users right-click on graphics objects. They are also known as shortcut menus.

You can create both types of menus using the Menu Editor. Access the Menu Editor from the Tools menu or from the Layout Editor toolbar.

These menus are implemented with uimenu and uicontextmenu objects. See Menu Callbacks for information about defining callback subfunctions for your menus.

Viewing the Object Hierarchy -- The Object Browser

Defining Menus for the Menu Bar

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