User`s guide

Designing for Cross-Platform Compatibility

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“Default System Font” on page 6-137

“Standard Background Colo r” on page 6-138

“Cross-Platform Compatible U nits” on page 6-139

Default System Font

By default, user interface controls (uicontrols) use the default font for the

platform on which they are running. F or example, when displaying your GUI

on PCs, uicontrols use MS San Serif. When your GUI runs on a different

platform, it uses that computer’s default font. This provides a consistent look

with respect to y our GUI and other application GUIs.

If you have set the

FontName property to a named font and want to return

to the default value, you can set the property to the string

default.This

ensures that the software uses the system default at run-time.

You can use the Property Inspector to set this property:

As an alternative, use the se t command to set the property in the GUI code

file. For example, if there is a push button in your GUI and its handle is

stored in the

pushbutton1 field of th e handles structure, then the statement

set(handles.pushbutton1,'FontName','def ault')

sets the FontName property to use the system default.

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