Event-driven GUI programming is about as close as it gets to the perfect use case for classes and OOP. The class can hold the data you want to play with, the handles for the figures/button/axes, and callback methods which get access to the class data. A bare minimum skeleton might look like:
classdef GUIClass < handle
properties (SetAccess = public, GetAccess = public)
foo;
bar;
theFigure;
end
methods (Access = public)
function self = GUIClass()
self.foo = rand(32,1);
self.bar = sin(2*pi*(1:32)/32);
self.theFigure = figure();
end
function buttonOneCallback(self, src, data)
figure(self.theFigure);
plot(self.foo);
end
function buttonTwoCallback(self, src, data)
figure(self.theFigure);
plot(self.bar);
end
end
end
Then a setup script would instantiate GUIClass, create/load the GUI and buttons, assign callbacks to buttonFooCallback and friends, and return the handle to the GUIClass.
