How to export a figure with its UI elements in Windows 7?

Hi all,

I'm trying to export a Matlab figure together with its UI elements (the whole figure window). The usual way I export a figure as an eps vector image is something like this:

FigHandle = figure;
plot(rand(1,10));
set(FigHandle, 'PaperPositionMode', 'auto')
print(FigHandle, '-depsc2', '-painters', 'temp_fig.eps');

Is there a quick way of exporting the entire figure window?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Jan]

But there are no uicontrol's in your example. Perhaps you mean the window border, the menubar and toolbar also? But then a direct export to an EPS file is not possible.

When I add uicontrol('String', 'hello'), it appears immediately in the exported EPS on my Matlab R2009a/64/Win7.

[EDITED] You can use FEX: ScreenCapture for the get(FigHandle, 'OuterPosition') to capture the window border also.

[Razvan]

Yes, I want the full window with menubar and toolbar. TIF, JPG or anything else is fine too.

Answer 2

[per isakson]

See http://www.mathworks.se/help/matlab/ref/print.html#options_target

    -noui, Suppress printing of user interface controls. See "Excluding User 
     Interface Controls".

But you want them included;-(

In the Preferences | Figure Copy Template there is a Show uicontrols check-box.