How to move an app (in appdesigner) to a new directory and handle icons (png files) on push buttons

Hello, Appdesigner allows you to add Icons to buttons.

My question is, if I want to copy my App to a different name in a different directory and I've already added icons (png) to pushbuttons I don't want the new app to point to the original picture files for the icons. If I just drop these icons in the new directory, will I have to selecvt each button and re assign the icon in the new directory?

Thanks

Jason

Answer 1

[Mario Malic]

If you want to move your app in different folder, you can create a folder with icons and add it to the MATLAB path and the icons will always remain there wherever you move the app.

You can move also your images to the same folder with the app, as paths to the images can be relative, but it's not a tidy solution.

[Jason]

Hi, "If you want to move your app in different folder, you can create a folder with icons and add it to the MATLAB path and the icons will always remain there wherever you move the app."

The problem with this is if I made a modification to one icon just for a specific app, then it will affect all the other apps. I'd much rather have each app with its own set of icons in its folder.

Im still not clear as to whether I need to go and relocate these icons in the appdesigner design view

[Mario Malic]

Then use relative paths for images, in the folder where your app is, make folder with images and add the folder to the path.

Click on all buttons, and type in the relative path to the image to the Icon field, i.e. Icons\im1.png

Maybe some of icons have relative path, you can check that in the Code view in function

function createComponents(app)

[Jason]

Yep all the icons are just showing their filename with no path, so I assume these are all relatative.

[Mario Malic]

If you have a separate folder with pictures for each application, you should be good to go

Edit for clarity: If you have a separate folders for each application, and pictures within the each folder, you should be good to go