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Graphics and GUIs with MATLAB

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Despite the promise of this text (Graphics AND GUIs, not just graphics), only one chapter (out of 10) is fully dedicated to GUIs. It provides ways to do most everything, but some things, such as exclusive radio buttons, can be implemented better using other source code (from MATLAB documentation or from online resources) as examples. However, the explanations of handle graphics and general graphical functionality are very useful (for example you can graph R^3 functions with adjustable transparency), and although it is not perfectly understandable at times, it is certainly better than most of the MATLAB resources (especially the standard documentation) you may find out there.

Before expecting to program GUIs, it should be advised that the reader should know a programming language similar to MATLAB's; C would be the most useful to know since MATLAB's language is based on it. That said, there are many well-commented code examples to follow to improve your understanding, but if you have a hard time following the code, the book often won't clear much up.

Since there are few MATLAB books covering graphics and GUIs, this book may be the best to have at the moment. Still, one should buy this keeping in mind that it is most useful to those who already have background in programming. It is not a tutorial.

Common plotting techniques covers material already presented in the MATLAB manuals. Handle graphics is a great introduction to the MATLAB user interface organization. The properties of user interface objects are covered comprehensively including the properties not documented by MATLAB. The author distinguishes between MATLAB 4 and MATLAB 5 features and programming. Explains stretchable GUIs and interruptible callbacks. The book needs a deeper coverage of MATLAB programming techniques especially in the data structures, code organization, and callback techniques. Example functions use the finite state machine programming style. Good supplement to the MATLAB user manuals.

I found this book to be a useful addition to the Matlab user-manual. Editing, however, could have been better. There are simply too many little annoying writing and spelling errors, and the coverage of certain Matlab commands sometimes lacks a logical structure. Having said that, I still would recommend the book for Matlab users who want to explore advanced graphics or GUI-design.

This is the best book I have found on developing GUIs in Matlab. Other reviews claim that the coverage of GUIs is limited. I agree that the coverage is limited, but yet it is the "less limited" coverage I've found. It is true that there is only one chapter on GUIs. Yet, this is the last and longer chapter in the book. Before buying this book, I tried to learn how to develop GUIs from the Matlab manuals but got only poorly-developed GUIs. with unbearable "side effects" (mainly related to using the Matlab base workspace). This book taught me how to avoid these side effects and how to develop GUIs that are self-contained and whose interaction with the Matlab base workspace is minimal or null. I highly recommend this book to anybody who needs to develop GUIs.

The book covers the topics of handle graphics much more thoroughly than the MATLAB manuals. The programming examples illustrate a lot of the nuances required to get the most out of MATLAB graphics programming. This book should be very useful for anyone wishing to learn more about how to do graphics and GUIs in MATLAB.

This book does a good job of going into the details of handles and properties to allow the reader to get a good feel of how to use the tools available. There are also good examples in the book. I have worked with quite a few different languages so I found it very enjoyable to read, but I don't know that a beginner will have a good feel for the execution of code associated with a user action (ie Buttondwnfcn) or not. I think if they take time with the examples they can get a good understanding though. Excellent book!

I'd been using Matlab for several years (completely self-taught) and wanted to learn how to set up a simple GUI for some routine tasks I was performing at work. I borrowed this book from a coworker, but plan to buy it in the near future. I have the "Mastering Matlab 7" book, which only covered how to use individual GUI elements. There wasn't much in the way of how to structure a GUI program, which is the niche I feel this book handles nicely, even going into a bit of animation type stuff, which is handy for using the mouse to interact with a plot, among other things.

After reading the GUI chapter in this book, I was able to create a simple GUI without much difficulty. I was happy to see that the old functions that I had previously written required only very minor changes to interface with the GUI. Understanding the structure of a Matlab GUI was the key that this book excells at in my opinion.

Now that I've made a "decent" GUI (albeit simple, I'm not a software engineer), I just clone and modify it for the next GUI that I need. This book will definitely provide a good jumping-off point for GUI development. The rest you can learn by doing.

I would most definitely say that a thorough understanding Matlab's "handle graphics" is a REQUIRED pre-requisite before trying to do GUI operation.

This is not a book for beginners who want to learn MATLAB or GUI. If you already know how to run MATLAB and know some GUI, then you may find this book useful. It will improve your graph and GUI skill. If you have no knowledge on how GUI is created, this is not a book for you.

This is a great book for people who already know MATLAB and are looking to go to the next level building guis. There are so few text books that cover this topic. I refer back to this reference all the time. I have purchased 3 copies of this book - one for me, one for my son, and one for an office worker.

I mainly wished to just make a GUI interface, but then I found i needed some graphics and found this book to be very helpful in both categories. For the GUI section, there were many options available for making a GUI and all options were clearly laid out from the use of global variables, to using GUIDE.