Is there any function for running ginput in GUI?

Dear All,

Is there any possibility to run ginput on the Axes in GUI writen in GUIDE to select a sub-space of a scatter plot?

Thank you in advance

[Rik]

A GUI is nothing special in Matlab. If you describe what you want to do, we might be able to provide you with more targeted help.

There is no fundamental reason why ginput can't work in a GUI.

[Walter Roberson]

In MATLAB every figure is a gui.

[Adam Danz]

What does "alongside" mean in this case?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

I am going to guess that the following will be along the lines you need:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/327043-change-the-mouse-pointer-while-hovering-above-the-axes#answer_256602

Answer 2

[Mohammad Shahbazy]

@Rik

@Walter Roberson

@Adam Danz

Thanks for your answers.

I want to plot data objects as a scatter plot and then select a sub-space of data by ginput and export the selected data from the plot. I am doing it properly outside of the GUI but in the GUI the code face with error (find the attached error). Also I can run it in an external figure as

figure(1);plot(X(:,1),X(:,2),'.'); ...  

X = rand(1000,2);
plot(X(:,1),X(:,2),'.');
[x,y] = ginput(7); 

[Adam Danz]

Could you attach your GUI files and instructions on how to recreate the error from within the GUI?

[Walter Roberson]

It appears that ginput is looking for a toolbar and not finding one.

Which MATLAB version are you using?

[Mohammad Shahbazy]

Walter, Thanks for your reply.

Fortunately, I have just solved the issue by finding a function here:

https://au.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/39799-ginput-funtion-to-be-used-in-guis

I use MATLAB ver. R2018b.