Part of deployed GUI not shown on some screen resolutions

Hi all,

I have a problem with a deployed GUI created through guide.

When deployed to a system with the same screen resolution as the one it was created on, everything works fine. But if I run the deployed application on another resolution (fewer pixels, e.g. 1366x768 instead of HD), part of the GUI is not shown. All elements are more or less equally large on both systems, but part of the GUI seems to have been clipped. The top 10% of the GUI is cut off.

All UI elements have units "characters". I'm using MATLAB r2014a. Resizing is not configured. The GUI has 3 tabs and >200 UI elements (thus very large, and I prefer not to reconfigure everything...).

What is the easiest workaround? I don't particularly care for dynamic resizing by the user, but the GUI should show properly on all screen resolutions...

Thanks in advance!

Vincent

Answer 1

[Jan]

Then most likely the elements of the GUI have a fixed size in 'character' units, but the figure has not, but the size is defined relative to the screen size in 'normalized' units. To solve tis, define the figure with a fixed size also.

[Vincent]

Thanks Jan Simon for the quick reply.

The figure also has units 'Characters', not 'Normalized'. So the figure is already defined with a fixed size I suppose... Maybe this causes the problem? I.e. the figure is too large and expressed in characters, so part of the GUI is being cut off?

[Jan]

The figure is only reduced in the size automatically, if it's pixel size is larger than the monitor size. Is this the case? Then there is no way to avoid either a resizable GUI or to program some scrollbars.

[Adam]

If you use normalised units your GUI should always fit on screen, whatever the resolution. Components will look unpleasant if they are squashed or stretched excessively, but this is a problem I have always had with building GUIs. Anything other than normalised units tends to cause problems for different resolutions or, more so in my case, people using laptops with the 125% text and objects size setting.