Maximize my GUI window

How can i maximize my GUI window keeping the ratio of all my labels and buttons maximized with the window

[Adam]

I use the GUI Layout toolbox to put all my components in layouts and have them resize nicely. It's more work, but I find it way better than alternatives. Resizing GUIs is always a big problem as they usually look awful when maximised, whether the components resize or not, unfortunately. Neither of these methods will scale text size though. There is a setting to do that, though I can't remember it off-hand. I seem to remember it is a bit suspicious though and resized my text differently in different places that just looked stupid.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

If your GUI was created in GUIDE(),

1. open your gui in guide: guide('mygui')
2. Select tools > GUI Options...
3. In the "Resize behavior" dropdown box, select 'Proportional'
4. Save, close
5. If your GUI is already opened, close it; run your GUI

If your GUI was created programmatically using UICONTROL(),

1. Set the units of all GUI components to 'normalized (see below)

% h is the handle to the figure hosting your gui
set(findall(h, '-property', 'Units' ), 'Units', 'Normalized' )

If your GUI was created in APP DESIGNER

1. open your gui in app designer: appdesigner('mygui')
2. From the component browser on the right, select the main figure (probably on top of the list)
3. In the properties window below, select 'Resize' (prior to R2018b, select 'Resize components when app is resized').
4. Save the app; close.
5. If your GUI is already opened, close it; run your GUI

Now you can maximize the figure and the components should scale to the new figure size.

[Bogdan -Ervin]

My GUI is created in App Designer of MatlabR2023b, and I do not find any UI Figure Properties, much less a resize option..

[Adam Danz]

Those instructions were written based on MATLAB R2018a. The names changed in R2018b. I've updated my answer. Thanks for reporting.