How to change an element: characters in matlab?

Question

For portability, I set the units of my GUIs to characters. Now I have a user who wants to use Matlab on his netbook, and the GUI window is larger than the screen (and thus, cropped at the top).

I think I could try writing something in the openFcn GUI that measures the screen size and then adjusts the GUI accordingly, but I would prefer to avoid that because I then need to deal with text that is bigger than box text etc.

What I would like to do is somehow set up the character “unit” on his Matlab installation. However, none of the font sizes in the settings seem to affect the unit: character. Does anyone know if there are settings for this that can be changed from inside Matlab (I don’t mind if this is something that there is a reset on every reboot, since I can just put it in the startup script)?

Answer 1

Can I suggest an alternative when designing a graphical interface:

• Create all of your GUI objects with the 'FontUnits'property set to 'normalized'.
• Create a shape with a default size and everything will look the way you want.
• CreateFcn/OpeningFcn/ResizeFcn, , .

, , , , . , 'FontSize' uicontrol, 'FontName' 'FixedWidth', .