problem with positioning in GUI

i am developing a gui with UI controls, when I am defining the size the of the figure to appear, It displays the whole screen, all the other uicontrols are placed properly.

I tried out just just the command line with f=.... in seperate window changing various values in 'pos', but it shows the full screen. any suggestions would be helpful.

function fnt()

pos = [10,10,490,650];
col= [0.831 0.816 0.784];
f = figure('name','Project','numbertitle','off',...
   'menubar','none','units','normalized',...
   'color',col,'position', pos)
    movegui(f,'center')
    col=get(f,'color');

    %Name plate
    uicontrol('style','text','string','Selected Files',...
    'position',[35,600,80,18],'backgroundcolor', col); 
    %creates a list box
    uicontrol('style','listbox','position',[30,500,270,100],...
    'foregroundcolor', [0 0 0],'backgroundcolor', [1 1 1]);
end

Answer 1

[Davide Ferraro]

If you are working with normalized units you should use position values between 0 and 1 to set the position.

The following code creates a figure that is not taking the whole screen:

f = figure('name','Project','numbertitle','off',...
   'menubar','none','units','normalized',...
   'color',col,'position', [0.1 0.1 0.3 0.5])

I would suggest you to keep using normalized units also for all UICONTROL objects.