MATLAB: GUI elements locations has changed position

guilocation shiftmisposition

Hi, I built a gui with numerous elements in it. When I loaded the program today, all the elements shifted upwords. As a result some of the elements are completely out of my reach and I can't even see them in order to put them back in their default position. I thought of changing each element position in the m file and them sort them back after I will see them in the GUI figure, but there must be a better way…

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If you are using GUIDE there is an Object Browser in the View menu that allows you to gain access to every component, even if it is off the screen, then you can set its position from there. How it got in that state in the first place I don't know, but I have had to locate hidden components this way a few times.

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If your GUI was created programmatically using UICONTROL(),

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open your gui in app designer: appdesigner('mygui')
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