save GUI fig by name from edit text

Asked by R Hebi on 15 Nov 2019 at 18:28

Latest activity Edited by Rik on 15 Nov 2019 at 21:02

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I am trying to save a figure in GUI, I want when the user click on a push button the below window appear.

I applied the follwoing function:

filter = {'*.m';'*.emf';'*.*'};
[file, path] = uiputfile(filter);

but when I press (save) nothing is saved. The problem is how to connect my figure to the above function.

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Adam Danz on 15 Nov 2019 at 19:00

Abdullah Alraigi,'s answer moved here as a comment

The figure is embeded with GUI

I used Guide

Rik on 15 Nov 2019 at 19:06

Note that copying the figure is not going to copy the callbacks, so you will end up with a figure that is only a visual copy of your GUI but no longer has any functionality.

Adam Danz on 15 Nov 2019 at 19:14

I was worried about that too but it turns out that the goal was to copy the embedded axes onto an external figure.

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Answer by Adam Danz on 15 Nov 2019 at 18:59

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Place this code in a callback function designed to save the figure. See inline comments for details.

newFig = figure();                         % Create a new parent figure
newAx = copyobj(handles.axes1, newFig);    % Copy your GUI axis to the new figure
%               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Put your axis handle here
% Reposition the axis to default position within the new figure
newAx.Units = 'Normalize';                
newAx.Position = [.13, .11, .76, .82]; 
% Ask user for path and filename
[file, path] = uiputfile('.fig');
% Save figure and print out a confirmation. 
savefig(fullfile(path,file));
fprintf('Figure saved: %s\n', file)     % optional

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Adam Danz on 15 Nov 2019 at 19:11

Abdullah Alraigi's answer moved here as a comment.

Thx adam

it works as wanted

Adam Danz on 15 Nov 2019 at 19:12

Just a small request - in the future, try to use the comments section for discussion and reserve the answer section for answers.

Glad I could help! ;)

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