GUIDE Templates :: Getting Started with GUIDE (Creating Graphical User Interfaces)

Creating Graphical User Interfaces

GUIDE Templates

The GUIDE Quick Start dialog provides templates for several basic types of GUIs. The advantage of using templates is that often you can modify a template more quickly and easily than by starting from a blank GUI. When you select a template in the Templates pane, a preview of it appears in the right-hand pane. For example, when you select the GUI with Axes and Menu, the Quick Start dialog appears as in the following figure.

Figure showing quick start for GUI with axes and menu

Clicking OK opens the template in the Layout Editor, as shown in the following figure.

Template for GUI with Axes and Menu opened in the layout editor

To display the names of the GUI components in the component palette, select Preferences from the File menu, check the box next to Show names in component palette, and click OK.

Note that the Layout Editor does not display the functioning GUI. The next section describes how to run the actual GUI from the Layout Editor.

To learn more about templates, see Using GUIDE Templates.

The Layout Editor Running a GUI