Customizing uicontrol border

8 Responses to Customizing uicontrol border

1. Jos von Asmuth says:

   November 3, 2010 at 1:02 am

   Hi Yair,

   Thanks for sharing all this knowledge! A uicontrol customization I would be interested in, is related to tabpanels. Although they could be very userfull, I am not very satisfied with the way uitabs look and function in Matlab. In particular, I would like to incorporate bitmap pictures in uitabs, comparable to how they can be incorporated in buttons or toolbars. Is that possible?

   Thanks in advance,
   Jos

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   • Yair Altman says:

     November 3, 2010 at 12:41 pm

     @Jos – it is indeed possible to include icon images in tabs. For example, an ‘x’ button to close the tab, as in modern browsers. I’ll write about this in next week’s post.

     - Yair
2. marco says:

   August 31, 2011 at 12:52 am

   hello,
   regarding borders i got a question: suppose to have a figure, put inside a panel, put inside this panel a uitext. suppose now to put a slider, to move the text in the panel. When the uitext reaches the borders of the panel, it won’t hide, but it overlap the panel’s borders, going outside it, over the figure ground.
   Instead if you got a panel inside the another panel, and you move it, it is hiding itself when it go out the borders of its parents. It is a ”bug” of matlab or is there any property to set to the uitext? (it happen also with buttons etc…). Any solution?
   see the example here:
   %creating the figure, the panel and uitext
   fig=figure();

   pnl1 = uipanel(‘parent’,fig,’units’,'normalized’,'position’,[.1 .1 .5 .5],’BackgroundColor’,[.5 .8 .8]);

   txt1 = uicontrol(‘parent’,pnl1,’style’,'text’,'string’,'hello’,…
   ‘BackgroundColor’,[.9 .7 .8],’units’,'normalized’,'position’,[.2 .2 .5 .5]);
   %trying to move the text
   set(txt1,’position’,[.3 .8 .5 .5])

   %same example with a panel
   pnl2 = uipanel(‘parent’,pnl1,’BackgroundColor’,[.9 .1 .8],’units’,'normalized’,'position’,[.2 .2 .5 .5]);

   set(pnl2,’position’,[.7 .2 .5 .5])

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   • Yair Altman says:

     August 31, 2011 at 4:24 am

     @Marco – in theory this should be done by the Clipping property, which is ‘on’ by default. Unfortunately, as the documentation states: “This property has no effect on uicontrol objects“. You can play around with the Z-Order (see uistack), or you can trap and fix this programmatically (mouse motion callback etc.), if it really bothers you.
   • marco says:

     August 31, 2011 at 5:23 am

     unfortunatly it really bothers me!!
     because i build a complex gui, with panels that are updating if the user interact with it, adding or removing for examples some line or plots. In this panels there are for example text and check boxes…and when there are too many, a slider is implemented. there is a function to grid the visualization when the figure is resized or no. So when a slider is called and the user move it, the uitext and other objects on that panels are ”flying” in the figure…..
     any idea or suggestion to solve it?
3. Lemikainen says:

   February 1, 2012 at 9:44 am

   Hi,
   I´m having some troubles combining this way of setting parameters with GUI created using matlab GUIDE. Guide really doesn´t offer much customisation especially for button borders, colors and so on.

   My problem is, that i don´t know where exactly should i place the code, which changes button border… At first, I placed it logically into main figure opening function (executed before figure actually appears), but findjobj doesn´t find any java objects (it returns just empty array), although handle structure already consist of all matlab gui handles… it works If I change code and press, while app is already launched. (java objects existing…)

   Do you have any suggestions how to solve my problem?

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   • Yair Altman says:

     February 1, 2012 at 9:49 am

     FindJObj *cannot* work in the GUIDE-created *_OpeningFcn because the figure is not yet visible at this time and so the Java components have still not rendered and therefore cannot be found.

     Try placing your call to FindJObj *after* the figure has become visible and all the controls have completed rendering, for example by moving your FindJObj call to the *_OutputFcn function, hopefully after a call to drawnow to ensure that everything has completed rendering.
   • Lemikainen says:

     February 2, 2012 at 2:35 am

     thx for quick reply, already tried method you suggest yesterday but had some troubles and noticeable delay before changes are applied. Especially if i try to change border and background at the same time, it only changes one property and i have to rerun it to change all… (changing foreground and background at the same time works)

     Do you have any idea how to minimalize the delay before applying changes?
     here is the code i use
     **************************************************************

     lineColor = java.awt.Color(1,1,1); 
     thickness = 1; 
     roundedCorners = false;
     newBorder = javax.swing.border.LineBorder(lineColor,thickness,roundedCorners);
      
     backgroundColor=java.awt.Color(0.141,0.518,1);
     foregroundColor=java.awt.Color(1,1,1);
     jButton = findjobj('class','pushbutton');       
     length(jButton)
      
     for i=1:1:length(jButton)
        set(jButton(i), 'Background', backgroundColor, 'Foreground', foregroundColor, 'Border', newBorder);
     end