Summary

The main purpose of this tool is to allow adding customized GUI templates to the ones included in MATLAB's GUIDE tool. Two main functions are included:

• install_guide_template.m This tool allows adding custom GUI templates to MATLAB's GUIDE. It copies the .m and .fig files to a folder in MATLAB's install directory, specifically [matlab_root]/toolbox/matlab/guide/guitemplates/ and modifies the templateinfo.xml file to register the new template. Note: in some cases, MATLAB should be ran with Administrative Privileges to be able to write to the guitemplates folder
• remove_guide_template.m This function displays a dialog listing the currently installed GUIDE templates, allowing the user to remove one of them.

A GUI template is included under the template_examples folder. More templates may be added to te repositry in the future.

Note: tested only in Windows. The location of the guitemplates folder may change in other OS.

Usage

Example code

% myTemplate.m and myTemplate.fig originally generated with GUIDE and customized by the user

add_guide_template('myTemplate.m','myTemplate.fig','My custom template');

The template name can be specified in the input dialog

Once installed, the template will show up in the template selector that is displayed when starting the GUIDE tool

% Run GUIDE to display the installed templates
guide

The function can also be called without specifying the source files. In this case a file selection dialog will prompt the user for the files.

add_guide_template

Additional options are explained in the function help

help add_guide_template