Getting Started

Laying Out a GUI

Starting GUIDE

Start GUIDE by typing guide at the MATLAB command prompt. This displays the GUIDE Quick Start dialog, as shown in the following figure.

From the Quick Start dialog, you can

• Create a new GUI from one of the GUIDE templates -- prebuilt GUIs that you can modify for your own purposes.
• Open an existing GUI.

The Layout Editor

When you open a GUI in GUIDE, it is displayed in the Layout Editor, which is the control panel for all of the GUIDE tools. The following figure shows the Layout Editor with a blank GUI template.

You can lay out your GUI by dragging components, such as panels, push buttons, pop-up menus, or axes, from the component palette, at the left side of the Layout Editor, into the layout area. For example, if you drag a push button into the layout area, it appears as in the following figure.

You can also use the Layout Editor to create menus and set basic properties of the GUI components.

To get started using the Layout Editor and setting property values, see Creating a GUI in the MATLAB documentation.

What Is GUIDE?

Programming a GUI

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