Exporting specific panels from Appdesigner

I have got a gridlayout with 4 panels and I would like to export specific panels to either a png, ppt or pdf. These panels have a tiledlayout and have several plots in them. Hence, I would just like to "screenshot" a specific panel and export it elsewhere.

Answer 1

[Sai Teja G]

Hi Suhas,

I understand that you want to save the plots of panels in tiledlayout seperately.

So for this you do not need to screenshot each plot, instead you can use the below feature from MATLAB to save or export plot images seperately.

Hope it helps!

[Suhas Ramanan]

Hi Sai, thanks for your tip! I took notice of this as well. This works but I was thinking of a programmatic way of being able to export a entire panel of plots into powerpoint. I would not want to manually click and save these plots.

In other words, I would like to export a panel of plots in its current format (see below) into powerpoint, instead of individual plots.

Do let me know if you have a solution to this!

Thanks

[Mario Malic]

exportgraphics is the function to do it.

[Suhas Ramanan]

Thanks for the reference Mario!

I managed to create a code:

function ExportButtonPushed(app, event)
             % Create a folder to store the exported images
             exportFolder = 'ExportedPanels';
             mkdir(exportFolder);

             for i = 1:4
                 try
                     % Create a temporary figure
                     tempFig = figure('Visible', 'off');

                     % Get the handle to the current panel (app.Panel_1, app.Panel_2, etc.)
                     panelHandle = app.(['Panel_' num2str(i)]);

                     % Copy the UI panel's content to the temporary figure
                     copyobj(panelHandle.Children, tempFig);

                     % Create a filename for the exported image
                     imageFileName = fullfile(exportFolder, ['Panel_' num2str(i) '.png']);

                     % Capture and export the content of the temporary figure
                     exportgraphics(tempFig, imageFileName, 'Resolution', 800, 'BackgroundColor','none', 'ContentType','vector');

                     % Close the temporary figure
                     close(tempFig);

                     % Provide feedback to the user
                     disp(['Panel ' num2str(i) ' screenshot saved as: ' imageFileName]);
                 catch exception
                     % Display an error message
                     disp(['Error capturing Panel ' num2str(i) ': ' exception.message]);
                     
                     continue; % Move on to the next panel
                 end
             end

However, one of the panels gives me an error: Object Copy of Axes with multiple coordinate systems is not supported.

If anyone knows how to deal with exporting dual plots in a panel, do help me!