overlap grid on an image with checkbox

Hi,

I have this Gui that displays two images and now i want to overlap one of the images with a grid by using a checkbox so that the user can turn the grid on or off. i have already managed to create a grid over the image but now i need to have this feature on my GUI but i'm kind of stuck here.

any help?

This is the code i have for reading the image and overlap the mesh:

I = (imread([pathname, filename]));

%Normalizes light with Otsu's criteria
level = graythresh(I);

%RGB to binary
BW = im2bw(I,level);

handles.I = I;
axes(handles.axes1)
imshow(handles.I)
hold on

%mesh Grid

M = size(BW,1);
N = size(BW,2);

for k = 1:468:M
x = [1 N];
y = [k k];
plot(x,y,'LineWidth',2,'Color','w','LineStyle','-');
plot(x,y,'LineWidth',2,'Color','k','LineStyle',':');
end
for k = 1:340:N
x = [k k];
y = [1 M];
plot(x,y,'LineWidth',2,'Color','w','LineStyle','-');
plot(x,y,'LineWidth',2,'Color','k','LineStyle',':');

hold off

Thank you

Nuno

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

To each plot() command add the parameter pair 'Tag', 'MyGrid'

Then

set(findobj('Tag','MyGrid'),'Visible','off')

would set it to be invisible

[Nuno]

Thank you Walter for your assistance, i have another question,

After i have placed a checkbox on the GUI i've set its callback with the "set(findobj('Tag','MyGrid'),'Visible','off')", this works, but only one time, for example, i have my image with the grid on it by default and when i mark the checkbox the grid disappears, so far so good but if i want the grid back when i uncheck the box the grid won't turn on.

[Walter Roberson]

Let hObject here represent the handle of the checkbox.

states = {'off', 'on'};

newstate = states{get(hObject, 'Value')+1};

set(findobj('Tag','MyGrid'),'Visible',newstate)

This will turn the grid on if the box is checked, and off if it is clear.

[Nuno]

Thank you that works fine!

[Uzair]

 I have similar problem. Below is my code...when ever i check the box, the image is replaced with blank screen with a vertical line in middle..Help me please

function show_grid_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles) % hObject handle to show_grid (see GCBO) % eventdata reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB % handles structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA) if (get(handles.show_grid, 'Value')) % rgb = imread('IK.jpg');

 imshow(handles.img,'Parent', handles.axes3);
hold on
M = size(handles.img,1);
N = size(handles.img,2);

a=str2double(get(handles.edit3, 'String')); b=str2double(get(handles.edit5, 'String'));

for k = 1:a:M x = [1 N]; y = [k k];

    plot(x,y,'Color','black','LineStyle','-','Parent', handles.axes3);
    set(findobj('Tag','MyGrid'),'Visible','on')
%   plot(x,y,'Color','k','LineStyle',':');
end

for k = 1:b:N x = [k k]; y = [1 M];

    plot(x,y,'Color','black','LineStyle','-','Parent', handles.axes3);
    set(findobj('Tag','MyGrid'),'Visible','on')
%     plot(x,y,'Color','k','LineStyle',':');
end

hold off else imshow(handles.img,'Parent', handles.axes3); end % Hint: get(hObject,'Value') returns toggle state of show_grid guidata(hObject, handles);