While working in GUI, how I can work with full screen?

In GUI, fig window not opens full screen because of buttons, after completing my working I open fig file full screen and there are empty spaces occurs, how can I work full screen like fig file opens full screen in order to avoid spaces?

[David Sanchez]

Could you state your question in another way? It is not very clear what your problem is. What spaces do you want to avoid?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

The window managers generally do not allow windows to be sized as full screen unless special graphics calls are made. But you can try this FEX contribution for hints, or this one

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

In modern versions of MATLAB (R2018a or later) you can get the handle to your figure then set the WindowState property to 'maximized'.

hFig = figure;
hFig.WindowState = 'maximized'; % Maximize the window
hFig.NumberTitle = "off"; % Turn off "Fig 1" etc.
hFig.Name = 'My Awesome App'; % Whatever you want the title bar to say.
hFig.ToolBar = "none" % Turn off toolbar
hFig.MenuBar = "none" % Turn off pull down menu.

Or you can specify it all at once when you call the figure function:

hFig = figure('WindowState', 'maximized',... % Maximize the window
    'NumberTitle', "off",... % Turn off "Fig 1" etc.
    'Name', 'My Awesome App', ... % Whatever you want the titlebar to say.
    'ToolBar', "none", ... % Turn off toolbar
    'MenuBar', "none") % Turn off pull down menu.

Answer 3

[Vishal Rane]

You could set the 'Units' to 'Normalized' ensuring that when you expand the figure, all components on ur GUI resize accordingly. For that your 'position' indices should be between 0 and 1.

[Walter Roberson]

The window managers for MS Windows do not normally permit applications to go completely full screen: they require that some space be left to access menu bars or close buttons or the like. You need to do special things to take over the entire screen.

[Image Analyst]

@Walter Roberson, you can now use the 'fullscreen' option for WindowState (as you probably know):

hFig = figure;
hFig.WindowState = "fullscreen"; % full Screen - no border anywhere
hFig.NumberTitle = "off"; % Turn off "Fig 1" etc.
hFig.Name = 'My Awesome App'; % Whatever you want the title bar to say.
hFig.ToolBar = "none" % Turn off toolbar
hFig.MenuBar = "none" % Turn off pull down menu.
% Now create an axes and plot stuff into it.
plot(1:10, 'b.');
grid on;

Answer 4

[Image Analyst]

You can try this:

% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]);

It makes it the same size as the full screen though it seems the upper left of the GUI is not always exactly, precisely at the upper left pixel of your video adapter.

[Walter Roberson]

Window managers commonly trim a bit off the height or position a bit away from one (or more) edges, to fit in with the UI style requirements.

[Nizam]

If you're using GUIDE, paste the above code inside the Resize function (right click the layout editor>View Callback>ResizeFcn). Something similar to this:--> function figure1_ResizeFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)....end

[Image Analyst]

A programmatic way to maximize the window is the attached code I got from Yair Altman It works both with R2014b and later (unlike some), and earlier.

Answer 5

[Jan]

FEX: WindowAPI allows to resize the figure to full screen (as the maximization button with visible task bar), to the full screen overlapping the task bar, and even to expand the inner position to both kinds of full screen.

[cr]

Is there an equivalent for Linux/Ubuntu? In other words how do we make an app full screen without titlebar,toolbar etc in Linux.

Thanks.

[Image Analyst]

@cr, As shown in my answer below, in modern versions of MATLAB you can get the handle to your figure then set the WindowState property to 'maximized'.

hFig = figure;
hFig.WindowState = 'maximized'; % Maximize the window
hFig.NumberTitle = "off"; % Turn off "Fig 1" etc.
hFig.Name = 'My Awesome App'; % Whatever you want the title bar to say.
hFig.ToolBar = "none" % Turn off toolbar
hFig.MenuBar = "none" % Turn off pull down menu.

Or you can specify it all at once when you call the figure function:

hFig = figure('WindowState', 'maximized',... % Maximize the window
    'NumberTitle', "off",... % Turn off "Fig 1" etc.
    'Name', 'My Awesome App', ... % Whatever you want the titlebar to say.
    'ToolBar', "none", ... % Turn off toolbar
    'MenuBar', "none") % Turn off pull down menu.

[cr]

Thanks. I see that latest version even has a fullscreen option. A reason to upgrade.