Creating MATLAB User Interfaces

Course Overview

This intermediate-level MATLAB training course, Creating MATLAB User Interfaces, teaches attendees how to create graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for MATLAB programs, using both the interactive AppDesigner tool and direct programming. Students begin with the basics of GUI design and progress to advanced features such as context menus, event notification and handling, backward compatibility across MATLAB releases, and run-time performance considerations.

Note: This course can be condensed to a half-day with fewer examples and less hands-on practice. We strongly recommend the full-day version if possible.

Key Learning Areas

Create usable interactive user interfaces in MATLAB
Create MATLAB GUIs using both AppDesigner and programmatically
Apply design principles in MATLAB GUIs
Customize and control the appearance and behavior of GUI elements
Understand how to handle asynchronous GUI events in user callback code
Understand MATLAB release compatibility and run-time performance tradeoffs

Course Outline

Who Benefits

Introduction to MATLAB Graphical User Interfaces (GUI)

Design principles and best practices
Tradeoff considerations
MATLAB GUI alternatives and roadmap
Typical evolution of MATLAB GUI development

App Designer – MATLAB’s Latest GUI Designer

AppDesigner environment, widgets, and code
MATLAB figures vs. uifigures
Performance, compatibility, and maintainability aspects
AppDesigner vs. GUIDE – pros & cons
The web-based future of MATLAB’s GUI
Layout management

Programmatic MATLAB GUI

AppDesigner vs. m-programming trade-offs
GUI units conversion and resizing
Customizing GUI components using Java, HTML, CSS
Handling asynchronous events in user callback code

Performance and Usability Considerations

Improving GUI responsiveness
Actual vs. perceived performance
Providing continuous interface feedback
Avoiding common pitfalls

Prerequisites

Attendees should have taken From MATLAB Scripts to Complete Programs course or have equivalent knowledge.
Students must be comfortable using the MATLAB environment and have at least basic programming experience.
No prior object-oriented experience or familiarity is assumed or required for this course. However, familiarity with object-oriented MATLAB would be helpful.

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