Matlab GUI training seminars – Zurich, 29-30 August 2017

Advanced Matlab training courses/seminars will be presented by me (Yair) in Zürich, Switzerland on 29-30 August, 2017:

• August 29 (full day) – Interactive Matlab GUI
• August 30 (full day) – Advanced Matlab GUI

The seminars are targeted at Matlab users who wish to improve their program’s usability and professional appearance. Basic familiarity with the Matlab environment and coding/programming is assumed. The courses will present a mix of both documented and undocumented aspects, which is not available anywhere else. The curriculum is listed below.
This is a unique opportunity to enhance your Matlab coding skills and improve your program’s usability in a couple of days.
If you are interested in either or both of these seminars, please Email me (altmany at gmail dot com).
I can also schedule a dedicated visit to your location, for onsite Matlab training customized to your organization’s specific needs. Additional information can be found on my Training page.
Around the time of the training, I will be traveling to various locations around Switzerland. If you wish to meet me in person to discuss how I could bring value to your project, then please email me (altmany at gmail):

• Geneva: Aug 22 – 27
• Bern: Aug 27 – 28
• Zürich: Aug 28 – 30
• Stuttgart: Aug 30 – 31
• Basel: Sep 1 – 3

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Interactive Matlab GUI – 29 August, 2017

1. Introduction to Matlab Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)
   • Design principles and best practices
   • Matlab GUI alternatives
   • Typical evolution of Matlab GUI developers
2. GUIDE – MATLAB’s GUI Design Editor
   • Using GUIDE to design a custom GUI
   • Available built-in MATLAB uicontrols
   • Customizing uicontrols
   • Important figure and uicontrol properties
   • GUIDE utility windows
   • The GUIDE-generated file-duo
3. Customizing GUI appearance and behavior
   • Programmatic GUI creation and control
   • GUIDE vs. m-programming
   • Attaching callback functionality to GUI components
   • Sharing data between GUI components
   • The handles data struct
   • Using handle visibility
   • Position, size and units
   • Formatting GUI using HTML
4. Uitable
   • Displaying data in a MATLAB GUI uitable
   • Controlling column data type
   • Customizing uitable appearance
   • Reading uitable data
   • Uitable callbacks
   • Additional customizations using Java
5. Matlab’s new App Designer and web-based GUI
   • App Designer environment, widgets and code
   • The web-based future of Matlab GUI and assumed roadmap
   • App Designer vs. GUIDE – pros and cons comparison
6. Performance and interactivity considerations
   • Speeding up the initial GUI generation
   • Improving GUI responsiveness
   • Actual vs. perceived performance
   • Continuous interface feedback
   • Avoiding common performance pitfalls
   • Tradeoff considerations

At the end of this seminar, you will have learned how to:

• apply GUI design principles in Matlab
• create simple Matlab GUIs
• manipulate and customize graphs, images and GUI components
• display Matlab data in a variety of GUI manners, including data tables
• decide between using GUIDE, App Designer and/or programmatic GUI
• understand tradeoffs in design and run-time performance
• comprehend performance implications, to improve GUI speed and responsiveness

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Advanced Matlab GUI – 30 August, 2017

1. Advanced topics in Matlab GUI
   • GUI callback interrupts and re-entrancy
   • GUI units and resizing
   • Advanced HTML formatting
   • Using hidden (undocumented) properties
   • Listening to action and property-change events
   • Uitab, uitree, uiundo and other uitools
2. Customizing the figure window
   • Creating and customizing the figure’s main menu
   • Creating and using context menus
   • Creating and customizing figure toolbars
3. Using Java with Matlab GUI
   • Matlab and Java Swing
   • Integrating Java controls in Matlab GUI
   • Handling Java events as Matlab callbacks
   • Integrating built-in Matlab controls/widgets
   • Integrating JIDE’s advanced features and professional controls
   • Integrating 3rd-party Java components: charts/graphs/widgets/reports
4. Advanced Matlab-Java GUI
   • Customizing standard Matlab uicontrols
   • Figure-level customization (maximize/minimize, disable etc.)
   • Containers and position – Matlab vs. Java
   • Compatibility aspects and trade-offs
   • Safe programming with Java in Matlab
   • Java’s EDT and timing considerations
   • Deployment (compiler) aspects

At the end of this seminar, you will have learned how to:

• customize the figure toolbar and main menu
• use HTML to format GUI appearance
• integrate Java controls in Matlab GUI
• customize your Matlab GUI to a degree that you never knew was possible
• create a modern-looking professional GUI in Matlab

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