MATLAB: How to create a GUI from another GUI

copy/pastegui

The problem seems simple, and yet…

I wrote a GUI. Now I want to create a similar version of it, without losing the previous.

So I copied the .mat .asv and .fig file, labelled with a new name (e.g. GUI_2), substitued the name throughout the .mat file, but when I call the new file it seems it is still calling the old!

Why does that happen? How can I simply copy/paste a new GUI and start modifiend it?

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Yes. This is problematic. I suggest you do this.

Run GUIDE, open the old GUI figure, and then save as. Then you can do your modifications.

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MATLAB: How to open another GUI from the existing GUI

The existing GUI can be opened from the current GUI using the function UIOPEN.

% Include the following line in the callback of the uicontrol that intends to call an existing GUI. 
uiopen('path to the existing fig file')

MATLAB: Copying a GUIDE interface and retaining the tag names

"Is there a way to copy the components from one GUIDE GUI to another and retain the tag names?"

openfig() the .fig file associated with the GUI. copyobj() the appropriate parts of the returned figure into the figure that is going to be the merged result.

Note that the callbacks that GUIDE generates internally all reference the original GUI name, such as

@(src, event) OriginalGUI('openFiles_KeyPressFcn', src, event, guidata(src) )

and those properties are going to remain the same when you copyobj(), leaving you with references to multiple functions. copyobj() will not adjust the saved callback properties for you.

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