How to position a GUI window the same place and size where it was closed?

Running the GUI every user puts the GUI window to different places, as it is convenient for them (especially if they have several screens). But it opens at the same place all the time. Is it possible to position the GUI window the same place where it was closed? Also the size would be useful to keep.

Answer 1

[Greg]

In the GUI's close or delete function:

% Documentation seems to indicate you *have* to call addpref before setpref
% the first time, but my experience says not
setpref('MyGUIName','DefaultPosition',handles.figMyGUI.Position);

EDIT: In the GUI's OutputFcn: Original text: Then in the GUI's opening function:

if ispref('MyGUIName','DefaultPosition')
  guipos = getpref('MyGUIName','DefaultPosition');
  handles.figMyGUI.Position = guipos;
end

These preferences should be user-specific, so shared machines shouldn't cause problems. You could add a questdlg in the close/delete function to ask if they want the position stored for next time.

[Greg]

If you want to separately control position (bottom left corner) and size (width and height), simply index elements 1:2 and 3:4 of the Position property, respectively.

[Csaba]

Thank you, I have accepted the answer and it works very well. The only exception if you put the window on the border of two screens (windows 10). In this case, it moves the window to the left screen.

Thank you again, I hope it will not change in the future releases.

Csaba

[Greg]

See updated answer.

[Csaba]

Updated works perfectly. Thank you!

[Greg]

Always happy to help.