drawfreehand in App Designer ?

Hi,

I want to add a freehand draw in my app, with :

d = drawfreehand(app.UIAxes_1,'color','green');

But i have this error:

Error using images.roi.internal.ROI/parseInputs

ROI parent must be a valid Axes object.

Error in images.roi.Freehand

So how can i use drawfreehand in App Designer ?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Answer 1

[Saumya Goel]

At this time, the "drawfreehand" function only takes an 'axes' objects as an argument, not 'UIAxes', the type of axes that are used in App Designer. More information about the valid arguments for 'drawfreehand' can be found on this documentation page:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/images/ref/drawfreehand.html?s_tid=doc_ta#mw_16f83c04-3e85-4c22-ab2e-127f7173d52b

[Stanley Strawbridge]

So is there a way to draw a roi on an image in the UIAxes in App designer?

[Sean de Wolski]

See my answer below.

Answer 2

[Sean de Wolski]

It's kind of silently supported but you can programmatically (>=R2018b) add an axes to a uifigure and then draw* will work.

ax = axes('Parent', uifigure)
drawfreehand(ax)

[Stanley Strawbridge]

Hi Sean, thanks for the response! This is moving in the right direction.

The commands provided allow me to open a NEW uifigure, separate from my GUI, that I am able to use drawfreehand with:

            ax = axes('Parent',uifigure);
            drawfreehand(ax);

However I would like to use this on the figure I already have in the GUI. I've tried several permutations of:

            ax = axes('Parent',app.UIFigure);
            drawfreehand(ax);

But this is not working on either the blank app.UIFigure/UIAxes, or on the image I have plotted with imshow.

Is there a way to get my current app.UIFigure/UIAxes to work?

OR. do I need to go back to the begining and manually add a uifigure to my GUI, do all of the plotting In that window, and then use drawdfreehand (I'm makeing a 3D image viewer that lets you circle things on different slices of a z-stack TIFF). If this is the case, could you point me to how to manually embed the new uifigure such that it has the same properties as the app.UIFigure. (I am interpreting "programatically add an axes", literally code the figure in by hand without the aid of the app designer. Is this what you mean?)

[Chedi Mbaga]

I find myself facing the same challenge you did more than a year ago. Did you manage to find a solution that would allow you to freehand draw within the GUI?

[Sean de Wolski]

drawfreehand now works in app designer with uiaxes...

[Andrew Keefe]

Is this with the latest version? I'm running R2020A.

[Narendra Narisetti]

Hi, I am also looking for sam solution. When I use uiaxes matlab taing long time and not responding. @Sean de Wolski, could you provide a solution how to develop free hand on ap designer?