I have created a GUI in Matlab for my data analysis. I am trying to modify the save button according to my need. I am using the code writing at the this page but with a bit of modification as written below:

hSave = findall(gcf, 'tooltipstring', 'Save Figure');
save_data = get(hSave);
hToolbar = save_data.Parent;
delete(hSave);
hNewSave = uisplittool('Parent',hToolbar, ...
                       'CData',save_data.CData, ...
                       'Tooltip',save_data.TooltipString); 
drawnow;  
jToolbar = get(get(hToolbar,'JavaContainer'),'ComponentPeer');
jButtons = jToolbar.getComponents;
jToolbar.setComponentZOrder(jButtons(end),3); 
jToolbar.revalidate;  

savelist = {'Save Reference Subtracted Spectra',...
    'Save Sum of Scaled Reference Spectra','Save Coeficients','Save All'};

jNewSave = get(hNewSave,'JavaContainer');
jNewSaveMenu = jNewSave.getMenuComponent;

for fileIdx = 1 : length(savelist)
    jMenuItem = handle(jNewSaveMenu.add(savelist{fileIdx}),'CallbackProperties');
    set(jMenuItem,'ActionPerformedCallback',...          @(jMenuItem,eventdata)photolysis_analyzer('mysave_ClickedCallback',hObject,eventdata,guidata(hObject)));
end

In the last line of the for loop I cannot use “set(jMenuItem,'ActionPerformedCallback' {@mysave_ClickedCallback,savelist{fileIdx}});” since it resets all my GUI handles. Now at this point, I want to recognise which savelist item is clicked in order to assign the appropriate action in my GUI.

I was wondering if you could help me with this problem.

Many thanks,
AKh

@Helly – your getMRU function probably returns less filenames than you expect. You should debug that function.

Thanks for this wonderful post. I have created the recent files list in the menu and toolbar successfully. But there were problems:

Because I need to get the handles for different sessions, so I modified your code to pass the handles as follows

function handles = recent_file(handles)
delete(get(handles.hMruMenu, 'Children'));
filenames = getMRU();
for fileIdx = 1 : length(filenames)
    uimenu(handles.hMruMenu, 'Label',filenames{fileIdx}, 'Callback',{@tpa_open_TPA_re,handles,filenames{fileIdx}});
end

I call this function when I open a file or save a file. I listed all filenames I selected from the recent file menu or open file menu in a popupmenu. when I select any filename from the popupmenu, the list of the filenames should remain same, but in fact it is changed to less filenames. It seems to me that the handles wasn’t updated correctly.

Do you have any idea how to solve this problem?

Regards
Dew

@Dew – assuming you’re using GUIDE, try to set a custom figure toolbar and simply drag your desired tool icons onto the toolbar, from the standard palette on the left of GUIDE’s toolbar designer window.

Is there any way we can have standard Menu & tool bar in figure generated from compiled Matlab code
If not standard at least Zoom in, Zoom out, Edit, Copy, View Data (critical ones!)

Regards
Dew

Hi
Thanks so much.
That is work. You are great….

@Dan – I do not know of a way to do this. I agree with you that the current situation is far from perfect. It might be less frustrating to get used to working in an undocked Figures group (i.e., all the figures are docked, but the Figures group itself is undocked). You then have the old menubar and toolbar available at the top of the Figures window, as you’re used to.

@Reza – the javacomponent function that you use to display the JProgressBar returns a second output parameter that is the Matlab HG container. You can set this container’s Position property just like for any other Matlab HG control. alternately, you can set the Position directly in your call to javacomponent:

[hjProgressBar, hContainer] = javacomponent('javax.swing.JProgressBar', pixelPosition, gcf);
set(hContainer, 'Position', newPosition);