Shaded Background i gui

Hello,

Is there any (fairly simple) way to make a gradient background in a gui, just to make it look better? Something like is done in Shape Fill in Microsoft Word.

Thanks!

Doug

Answer 1

[Jan]

You can start with creating a full-figure axes in the background:

FigH  = figure;
AxesH = axes( ...
    'Parent',   FigH, ...
    'Units',    'normalized', ...
    'Position', [0, 0, 1, 1], ...
    'Visible',  'off', ...
    'XLimMode', 'manual', 'XLim',  [0, 1], ...
    'YLimMode', 'manual', 'YLim',  [0, 1], ...
    'XTick',    [],       'YTick', [], ...
    'NextPlot', 'add', ...
    'HitTest',  'off');

Now you can insert an image or e.g. a patch:

x = [0, 1, 1, 0];
y = [0, 0, 1, 1];
c = rand(1, 4);
patch(x, y, c, 'Parent', AxesH);

[Douglas Anderson]

Very nice. Perhaps you can shed some other light on a similar issue.

In a GUIDE gui, if you change the color of a button, the shading that makes it look like a button (lighter on the top than on the bottom) goes away. Any suggestion on how to do that for all buttons, without having to do this for each and every one?

Thanks, Jan.