User`s guide

Create Menus for a Programmatic GUI
Note After you have created all menu items, set their HandleVisibility
properties off by executing the following statements:
menuhandles = findall(figurehandle ,'type','uimenu');
set(menuhandles,'HandleVisibility', 'off')
See “Program Menu Items” on page 12-34 for information about programming
menu items.
Add Context Menus to a Programmatic GUI
Context menus appear when the u ser right-clicks on a figure or GUI
component. Follow these steps to add a context menu to your G UI:
1 Create the context menu object using the uicontextmen u function.
2 Add menu items to the context menu using the uimenu function.
3 Associate the context menu with a graphics object using the object’s
UIContextMenu property.
Subsequent topics describe commonly used context m enu properties and
explain e ach of these steps:
• “Commonly U sed Properties” on page 11-81
• “Create the Context Menu Object” on page 11-82
• “Add Menu Items to the Context Menu” on page 11-83
• “Associate the Context Menu with Graphics Objects” on page 11-84
• “Force Display of the Context Menu” on page 11-86
Commonly Used Properties
The m ost commonly used properties needed to describe a context menu object
are shown in the following table. These properties apply only to the menu
object and not to the individual menu items.
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