matlab toolstrip,Matlab toolstrip-part 5 (icons)

The Icon property value is typically empty ([]) by default, meaning that no icon is displayed.

We can use one of ~150 standard icons using the format Icon.. For example: icon = Icon.REFRESH_24. These icons typically come in 2 sizes: 16×16 pixels (e.g. Icon.REFRESH_16) that we can use with the small-size components (which are displayed when the column has 2-3 controls), and 24×24 pixels (e.g. REFRESH_24) that we can use with the large-size components (which are displayed when the column contains only a single control). You can see the list of the standard icons by runningmatlab.ui.internal.toolstrip.Icon.showStandardIcons

We can use the Icon constructor by specifying the full filepath for any PNG or JPG image file. Note that other file type (such as GIF) are not supported by this method. For example:icon = Icon(fullfile(matlabroot,'toolbox','matlab','icons','tool_colorbar.png')); % PNG/JPG image file (not GIF!)

In fact, the ~150 standard icons above use this mechanism under the hood: Icon.REFRESH_24 is basically a public static method of the Icon class, which simply calls Icon('REFRESH_24','Refresh_24') (note the undocumented use of a 2-input Icon constructor). This method in turn uses the Refresh_24.png file in Matlab’s standard toolstrip resources folder: %matlabroot%/toolbox/shared/controllib/general/resources/toolstrip_icons/Refresh_24.png.

We can also use the Icon constructor by specifying a PNG or JPG file contained within a JAR file, using the standard jar:file:...jar!/ notation. There are numerous icons included in Matlab’s JAR files – simply open these files in WinZip or WinRar and browse. In addition, you can include images included in any external JAR file. For example:icon = Icon(['jar:file:/' matlabroot '/java/jar/mlwidgets.jar!/com/mathworks/mlwidgets/actionbrowser/resources/uparrow.png']);

We can also use the Icon constructor by specifying a Java javax.swing.ImageIcon object. Fortunately we can create such objects from a variety of image formats (including GIFs). For example:iconFilename = fullfile(matlabroot,'toolbox','matlab','icons','boardicon.gif');jIcon = javax.swing.ImageIcon(iconFilename); % Java ImageIcon from file (inc. GIF)icon = Icon(jIcon);

If we need to resize the Java image (for example, from 16×16 to 24×24 or vise versa), we can use the following method:

% Resize icon to 24x24 pixelsjIcon = javax.swing.ImageIcon(iconFilename); % get Java ImageIcon from file (inc. GIF)jIcon = javax.swing.ImageIcon(jIcon.getImage.getScaledInstance(24,24,jIcon.getImage.SCALE_SMOOTH)) % resize to 24x24icon = Icon(jIcon);

We can apparently also use a CSS class-name to load images. This is only relevant for the JavaScript-based uifigures, not legacy Java-based figures that I discussed so far. Perhaps I will explore this in some later post that will discuss toolstrip integration in uifigures.