Adding a push button to a figure without using GUIDE

Is there a reason why I'm not seeing the pushbutton on the figure? Thanks Jason

   hFig=figure('Position',[200 200 1600 600]);
      movegui(hFig,'center')  
      %Add pushbutton to view data
      ButtonH=uicontrol('Parent',hFig,'Style','pushbutton','String','View Data','Position',[0.0 0.5 0.4 0.2],'Units','normalized','Visible','on');

Answer 1

[Adam]

You have to specify the Units before the Position else default units of characters are used, meaning your push button will be minuscule with your current code. Use this instead:

ButtonH=uicontrol('Parent',hFig,'Style','pushbutton','String','View Data','Units','normalized','Position',[0.0 0.5 0.4 0.2],,'Visible','on');

[Jason]

Thankyou

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

If you really want to take on the burdensome task of building a complete GUI from scratch using bunches of uicontrol() calls, see Matt Fig's File Exchange http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24861-41-complete-gui-examples

[Jason]

Its only a figure that i have already plotted using subplots that I want a single button to view the ascii data!

[Image Analyst]

Nonetheless, there's some good stuff there. It's still worth taking a look at, at least I think so.

[Jason]

Yes of course, thanks for passing the link.