Plotting a graphic output of an external function in APPDESIGNER, more specifically the uiaxes

Dear all:

I am trying to convert my old GUI's to apps and I got really complicated dealing with the graphics:

I have an external function, this function provides a graphic output, which can be ploted within axes.

e.g.

figure
plot_shaded_image(DEM)%where DEM is the input variable

I would like to put this output inside the UIAxes of an app

Complicated right? unless I edit the

plot_shaded_image

function, adding the axes information

for instance:

function ButtonPressFunction(app, event)
      testgraph(app.UIAxes, . . .)  
end

and in your external function,

function testgraph(h, . . .)
    plot(h, . . .)
end

however, the original function is quite complicated, based in object oriented programming, so is almost imposible to edit..

I could solve this in GUIDE in a quite simple manner

axes(handles.axes1)%plot area in the GUI
complex_function(DEM)%DEM is any input

But how to do something similar in appdesigner?

seems to me that matworks did the appdesigner less flexible than GUIDE?

Any idea?

Answer 1

[J. Alex Lee]

If there is no way to activate a uiaxes programmatically, you can try to create a regular axes in app designer in the startupfcn, which you might be able to activate as you did with call to axes. But I wouldn't recommend it for long term solution...if the old functions will have more lifetime in new gui scheme, I would do the tedious updates because anyway plotting should target axes when you have complicated guis.