Comments on: Figure toolbar customizations

By: Aris

Aris — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:07:20 +0000

@JP
How exactly do you adjust the height?
Did you by any chance find a solution for the width?
Thanks!

By: JP

JP — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:38:37 +0000

I have a GUI that has an axes that fills the bottom left 1/4 of the window. I would like the toolbar to be directly above the axes, but not spill over into the content on the right half of the window.

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:28:52 +0000

@JP – I don’t know of an easy way to reduce the toolbar’s width. Why do you wish to do this?

To remove the docking icon, simply use the fully-documented DockControls property of the figure:

set(gcf,'DockControls','off')

By: JP

JP — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:57:02 +0000

Yair,
thanks for this, it is extremely helpful. Playing around with the jToolbar properties, I was wondering if there is a way to make the toolbar width less than the width of the window? I can adjust the height using preferred size, but adjusting the width does nothing.

Also, when adding matlab toolbars, it adds the dock button to the right of the toolbar. Is there a way to remove that. It shows up in the list of jToolbar components, but removing it does not seem to work.

Thanks,
JP

By: Modifying default toolbar/menubar actions | Undocumented Matlab

Modifying default toolbar/menubar actions | Undocumented Matlab — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:11:04 +0000

[...] Examples of toolbar customizations were presented in past articles (here and here). A future article will explain how to customize menu [...]

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:52:29 +0000

@Kris – interesting question! Standard Java JToolBars (which the Matlab toolbar extends) allow floating toolbars to be manually dragged and pinned to the sides, but apparently the Matlab extension prevents it.

Here is how to programmatically place the toolbar on the bottom:

jPanel = jToolbar.getParent.getParent;
jPanel.add(jToolbar.getParent,java.awt.BorderLayout.SOUTH);
jPanel.revalidate;

Unfortunately, when we try to use the same method for placing the toolbar on the left/right sides, the figure gets “frozen” and unresponsive. Perhaps someone can enlighten us what needs to be changed in the following code:

jToolbar.setOrientation(jToolbar.VERTICAL);
jPanel = jToolbar.getParent.getParent;
jPanel.add(jToolbar.getParent,java.awt.BorderLayout.WEST);
jPanel.revalidate;

Yair

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:36:23 +0000

Yair:

I was curious if you might know how to create a vertically oriented figure toolbar. I am not wise in the ways of java, and thus, I am not certain about how to go about relocating the figure toolbar from the top of the figure window to, say, the left hand side of the figure window. I am interested in designing a GUI, such that the user may elect to place my customized toolbar icons and associated functions somewhere else in the figure window besides the top.

I appreciate any feedback you might have. Thanks.

-Kris

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:35:32 +0000

oops... my bad - sometimes a simple handle(obj) is enough to expose the callbacks, but sometimes not, so it is always advisable to use handle(obj,'CallbackProperties').Even MathWorks programmers encounter this limitation, as attested by the following internal comment within the built-in javacomponent.m function: Promote the component to a handle object first. It seems once a java object is cast to a handle, you cannot get another handle with 'callbackproperties'.Anyway, I fixed the post accordingly.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:26:38 +0000

Yair
i`ve just resolved my problem.
jToolbar = handle(jToolbar, ‘CallbackProperties’); is missing in the example on the top of the page.
Thanks for the new example.

Daniel

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:24:15 +0000

Daniel – which Matlab release and platform are you using? Also, what commands do you use to get the toolbar object and its callbacks? – The following should work:

hToolbar = findall(hFig,'tag','FigureToolBar');
jToolbar = get(get(hToolbar,'JavaContainer'),'ComponentPeer');
jToolbar = handle(jToolbar, 'CallbackProperties');
set(jToolbar,'AncestorAddedCallback',@myCallbackFunction);