Menu Gui - how to have the menu box always displayed

I have the following function:

function menu_plot_results(Data,Index)

option = menu('plot data',...

    'Exit',...
    'Close All',...
    'aaaa',...
    'bbbb',...
    'cccc');

switch option

    case 1 %Exit
    case 2 %Close All
    case 3 %aaaa
    case 4 %bbbb
    case 5 %cccc
end

cases 3-5 create plots of data. Once the figures are created, I would like the menu to re-appear, so that additional plots can be created.

Thanks

Chris

Answer 1

[Matt Tearle]

Unfortunately [voice = Morbo] menu does not work that way [/voice]. There are two alternatives I can think of: 1) use menu within a function called from a wrapper/control function, or 2) write an actual gui yourself. If you take route 2, you associate callbacks with each button; callback 1 will actually delete the menu window (all the others will leave there). Option 1 is less pretty, but also less work:

function menu_plot_results(Data,Index)

doagain = true;
while doagain
  option = makemenu(Data,Index);
  if option ==1
      doagain = false;
  end
end

function option = makemenu(Data,Index)
option = menu('plot data',...
    'Exit',...
    'Close All',...
    'aaaa',...
    'bbbb',...
    'cccc');

switch option
    case 1 %Exit
    case 2
        close all
    case 3
        figure
        plot(Data)
    case 4
        disp(Index)
    case 5
        disp('Hello world')
end

[Sean de Wolski]

My vote also goes for Route 2!

Guaranteed to be faster, easier, and less chaotic than Route 9.

[Matt Tearle]

Yeah, but so is a world war.

(Explanation for everyone else: Route 9 -> Boston-area humor...)

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

I'm not clear on this:

You have a menu, you have it generate a figure, but then it closes and you want it to stay open?

After the plot, just have it call itself again.

function mpr(Data,Index)

option = menu('plot data',...
    'Exit',...
    'Close All',...
    'aaaa',...
    'bbbb',...
    'cccc');
switch option

      case 1 %Exit

      case 2 %Close All
          close all
      case 3 %aaaa
          figure;
          peaks;
          mpr;
      case 4 %bbbb
          figure;
          image;
          mpr;
      case 5 %cccc
          figure;
          membrane;
          mpr;
  end

Or, and this is the route I would take, don't use menu() just hard code your own GUI with a few UICONTROLS and then it doesn't have to close.

[Matt Tearle]

I wondered about this... This is probably fine, but I don't like the recursiveness -- if you make 15 plots, you're actually 15 function calls deep, until you finally exit and they all collapse back out.

Answer 3

[Chris]

Thankyou for the replies. I used Matt's solution, worked very well.