How to save figures and subplots App Designer

Hello,

Does anyone know how to save app elements within App Designer? I have some subplots (app.axis(i)) to save. The fuction saveas, that I write as following;

saveas(app.axis(i),'filename','jpg');

Returns this:

Error using print

Functionality not supported with figures created with the uifigure function.

Am I writing it wrong? I've tried annotation, exportgraphics, but they all return similar errors.

Answer 1

[Jon]

This is a way of making a screen shot of the figure within app designer

            plot(app.UIAxes,1:100,rand(1,100))

            % save the plot
            exportgraphics(app.UIAxes,'myfig.jpg')

[Iacopo]

Thanks for your help Jon! Also do you know how to specify the destination folder of the saved figure? Thanks

[Jon]

You can specify the full path to the file like this

            % save the plot
            exportgraphics(app.UIAxes,'c:\temp\myfig.jpg')

[Jon]

I have to say, it seems really strange that they wouldn't support saveas for uifigures.

I also see there are some other more elaborate approaches to work around this, for example with this answer

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/281318-how-can-i-save-a-figure-within-app-designer