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MATLAB Advanced GUI Development

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This book really disappoints, particularly given it is quite pricey. It seemed like half of the book was boilerplate code samples (more on this later) and tables of GUI object properties. No treatment of advanced topics like embedding third-party controls (ActiveX or Java). Coordination of multiple GUI entities via shared global variables (primitive). And truly nothing new that you can't get from the online documentation (and save yourself the $45.00 for the book).

As to the code samples, for this price there should have been an accompanying CD/DVD. There is a website where you can get *some* of the examples... which are available to anyone, not just book owners. Had I been more savvy I'd have just downloaded the code, studied it and saved myself some cash.

I have yet to find a good guide to Matlab GUI building. The manuals are too pedantic (lots of style advice and arrows and pictures), and the other books I have spend too much time explaining lists of properties and options. This book also suffers from this: just listing a bunch of options and then going down the list to explain each in turn. I was looking for something more practical, for a higher level programmer: how to go from start to finish of some primary GUI types, with perhaps some brief asides about the various options. This book does do step-by-step solutions to different problems, but the problems seem rather simplistic (not 'advanced') and anyway haven't really addressed the issues I am facing.

Part of the problem is Matlab itself: the data structures used for GUIs are convoluted and opaque and the techniques for building GUIs have gone through a number of revisions so that there are many ways to do the same thing. And I am still not clear what the advantages of the different methods are. So while I can't say that this is a great manual, it isn't any worse than the others. But in the end you will probably end up switching back and forth between all of them and the on-line help -- and still not be able to solve your problems!

Examples with syntax that simply does not work! Unless you enjoy debugging someone elses bogus code, buy a different book.

I needed to write a real-time DSP GUI and this book was very useful. I was having trouble with real-time updating of plots over multiple GUI windows and this was the only resource I found that covers this topic. Each chapter has many examples that were helpful and they run fine on Matlab 2008a even though the text is from 2006.

I taught a course this quarter which introduced our grad students to the fundamentals of MatLab programming -- this book is by far the best reference I could find for the section on "Graphical User Interfaces"!

this is kinda crazy, I have been waiting for this freaking book for over one month, still havnt got it! what happened ?? To where or whom should I complain?

I have not studied the whole book but perhaps 35% of it; my first impression is that it is well written but i was expecting it to be more advanced, to cover more difficult examples. A. Andreatos, Greece. Feb.09

I desperately needed this! Although there was a lot of the "handle" concept that I still had to struggle to learn (and am still learning), this book made it 100 times easier to create my more advanced applications!

The book is well written easy to follow, I received the book on time and was in perfect condition thank you!

Superb! Succinct and to the point,no need for multiple tomes on the same subject to gain the advantages of this knowledge,this one actually has it all! Kudos,Mr. Smith!