week 5 & 6: Study of Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

• Introduction

A graphical user interface (GUI) is a graphical display in one or more windows containing controls, called components that enable a user to perform interactive tasks. The user of the GUI does not have to create a script or type commands at the command line to accomplish the tasks. Unlike coding programs to accomplish tasks, the user of a GUI need not understand the details of how the tasks are performed.

• The GUI contents

1.  An axes component.
2. A pop-up menu listing three data sets that correspond to MATLAB functions: peaks, membrane, and sinc
3. A static text component to label the pop-up menu.
4. Three buttons that provide different kinds of plots: surface, mesh, and contour.

• The GUI Layout Editor

The Layout Editor enables you to select GUI components from a palette and arrange them in a figure window. 

• The Property Inspector

The Property Inspector will show the properties for the object and will changes as we click on different objects.