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The App Designer, introduced in R2016a, is a graphical tool for creating MATLAB apps with an interactive GUI. Use this tag only for specific MATLAB App Designer questions, and not for questions involving MATLAB GUIDE.

MATLAB App Designer is a graphical tool for creating apps. It features various new elements for user interaction, such as buttons, knobs and gauges.

The App Designer is a different, but complementary approach to the MATLAB GUIDE. While GUIDE has very rich plotting options, including 3D visualizations, the App Designer only features simple 2D plots. On the other hand, App Designer has more elements for user interaction.

Additional information on the App Designer are:

Related tags:

  • for general, not App Designer specific questions.
  • for GUIDE specific questions.
  • for questions about programmatic creation and manipulation of GUIs.
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Creating a MATLAB GUI for an infinite looping script

I'm currently working on a MATLAB script call manager.m . This script contains an infinite loop that monitors a communication thread for incoming commands. I would like to a create a status window for this program such that a user knows that it is…
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Call an attribute from a Matlab script in AppDesigner GUI

I have created a GUI with app designer which launch a matlab program after the user chose a file and pressed launch button : function LaunchButtonPushed(app, event) app.ResultWindowTextArea.BackgroundColor = 'green'; …
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Matlab Get Handle for Layout

As the title states, I need to get a handle for my Matlab application. My class is derived from matlab.apps.AppBase and is app.UIFigure (if that matter, I'm still learning Matlab). My main goal is to change the mouse cursor to watch after a button…
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How to wrap text in a label using Matlab's App Designer

I am making a GUI app using Matlab's App Designer. I have a label that I dropped into the GUI that will be for instructions to the user. As they proceed, the instruction text lengths will vary. When the text length reaches the end of the label, it…
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hit.IntersectionPoint returns NaNs in matlab's ButtonDownFcn

I have developed a GUI with Matlab's AppDesigner. To pick up mouse clicks, I set the ButtonDownFcn callback for the image I have plotted. Then inside the callback I read the hit.IntersectionPoint: ax = app.UIAxes; ih = imagesc(I, 'Parent',…
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How to show video from simulink block in MATLAB app designer

I am using simple model shown below to stream videos from raspberry pi camera in MATLAB. I am trying to make a GUI using MATLAB app designer to show video stream. I could not find any example for doing this. How can I access the video data from…
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Unable to access the values a user inputs into text boxes

I am trying to collect several values inputted into NumericEditField controls by a user and store them in order to use them later in a computation, whose result gets presented back. I seem to be able to store the variables, but am unable to access…
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Sum a field on UITable based on the value on dropdown

I am creating an app which will perform some simple mathematical functions. One of these functions is to sum the field on my table. However, it should sum the field based on what is selected on the drop down menu and display the sum value on an edit…
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Display a Video Stream in an App Designer Figure

I am developing a simple app in App Designer and I have been struggling with including a video stream from a webcam. I have come across the following post, but so far I have been unsuccessful in getting my app to work:…
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Start App from file storing settings and load them at startup

I'm working on an App in app designer. Within the app the user will select a bunch of options before running some calculations. To simplify this process I added a "Save as..." menu so that the user can save the current settings to a file (.mat) and…
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MATLAB R2017a UIAxes Pan/Zoom Limits

In our previous code we've had a basic UI using standard figures. I'm in the process of updating the code to use the new app designer style UIFigures - I'm not actually using the app designer tool, but rather building it programmatically. When using…
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Animation made of multiple 3D plots in Matlab App Designer

I am trying to transcribe one of my scripts into App Designer in Matlab so that I easily distribute it to students. The idea is to show forces and moments acting in 6 degrees of freedom on a vehicle in real time (based on user input through a…
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Abort execution of parsim

For the use case of being able to abort parallel simulations with a MATLAB GUI, I would like to stop all scheduled simulations after the user pressed the Stop button. All simulations are submitted at once using the parsim command, hence something…
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Saving movies in MATLAB app designer

Is there any way to save movies in MATLAB App Designer? Many graphics functions are not supported in App Designer, including getframe(), which is necessary to make movies.
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How can I allow only one instance of app to run which created in APP DESIGNER of MATLAB?

I created application in app designer of matlab and install it in apps. I can run one or more instance this apps but I need only one. For example in "GUIDE" of matlab is option: "GUI allows only one instance to run (singleton)"
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