Gui Screen Shot Button

Hello all,

I have a GUI that i created using guide and I am trying to create a push button that can be used to save a screen shot of the GUI window. I want to be able to select the location it is saving to and have it same with the same resolution. I got it working using the saveas function, but it saves, but the images come out very low quality. The save as code is as follows:

function pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
[name,path,index] = uiputfile
saveas(Sections,[path name],'jpg');

I am not sure if there is a way to do this with the print command or not, but any help is appreciated.

[Geoff Hayes]

Christopher - how are you creating Sections which is presumably the screen shot of your GUI? It could be that the resolution is low quality since you are saving this image to jpeg. Have you tried bmp or other formats?

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try this snippet to get a valid filename.

% Note, if you're saving an image you can use imsave() instead of uiputfile().
startingFolder = userpath
defaultFileName = fullfile(startingFolder, '*.*');
[baseFileName, folder] = uiputfile(defaultFileName, 'Specify a file');
if baseFileName == 0
  % User clicked the Cancel button.
  return;
end
fullFileName = fullfile(folder, baseFileName)

Then use fullFileName instead of "Sections" in saveas(), or better yet export_fig.

[Christopher]

Thanks Image Analyst, but what do I put for path name in the saveas line? Or do I just leave it? So its:

saveas(fullFileName,[path name],'jpg');

I am having a hard time interpreting what is going on.

[Image Analyst]

Nothing - you don't use it. The first argument is the full file name - that's why I called it that. It's the drive, folder, basefilename, and extension all in one single string as the second argument. The handle is the first argument.

[Christopher]

Update, Export_fig works perfectly. Image Analyst, thanks for all your help :)

Answer 2

[Kiarash Ahi]

I put it like this, but did not work, could you please help me:

function pushbutton76_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)

% Note, if you're saving an image you can use imsave() instead of uiputfile().

startingFolder = userpath

defaultFileName = fullfile(startingFolder, 'scsh.jpg')

saveas(Sections,[path name],'jpg');

[baseFileName, folder] = uiputfile(defaultFileName, 'Specify a file');

if baseFileName == 0

% User clicked the Cancel button.

return;

end

[Image Analyst]

Try this:

% Get the name of the file that the user wants to save.
% Note, if you're saving an image you can use imsave() instead of uiputfile().
startingFolder = pwd % Or "userpath" or wherever you want.
defaultFileName = fullfile(startingFolder, '*.*');
[baseFileName, folder] = uiputfile(defaultFileName, 'Specify a file');
if baseFileName == 0
  % User clicked the Cancel button.
  return;
end
fullFileName = fullfile(folder, baseFileName)
saveas(Sections, fullFileName);

The thing though is that you need to get the variable Sections in to that function. For that, see the FAQ: http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#How_can_I_share_data_between_callback_functions_in_my_GUI.28s.29.3F

[Kiarash Ahi]

I fixed it like this, it also keeps the resolution to what you see on your screen:

function pushbutton76_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)

% Note, if you're saving an image you can use imsave() instead of uiputfile().

matlab.graphics.internal.setPrintPreferences('DefaultPaperPositionMode','auto')

CHEA=handles.CHEA;

fig = gcf;

fig.PaperPositionMode = 'auto';

print('ScreenSizeFigure','-dpng','-r0')

startingFolder = userpath

global num;

n=num;

%s

ch=char(CHEA(n,1))

n=num2str(n)

n=char(n)

ch=strcat(ch,'-',n,'.png')

%ch=fprintf('%s',CHEA(n,1))

defaultFileName = fullfile(startingFolder,ch)

[baseFileName, folder] = uiputfile(defaultFileName, 'Specify a file');

saveas(gca,defaultFileName,'png');

fig.PaperPositionMode = 'auto';

print('ScreenSizeFigure','-dpng','-r0')

if baseFileName == 0

% User clicked the Cancel button.

return;

end