How to export a figure with its UI elements in Windows 7?

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Hi all,
I'm trying to export a Matlab figure together with its UI elements (the whole figure window). The usual way I export a figure as an eps vector image is something like this:
FigHandle = figure;
plot(rand(1,10));
set(FigHandle, 'PaperPositionMode', 'auto')
print(FigHandle, '-depsc2', '-painters', 'temp_fig.eps');
Is there a quick way of exporting the entire figure window?
Thanks!

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Jan
Jan on 12 Aug 2013
Edited: Jan on 12 Aug 2013
But there are no uicontrol's in your example. Perhaps you mean the window border, the menubar and toolbar also? But then a direct export to an EPS file is not possible.
When I add uicontrol('String', 'hello'), it appears immediately in the exported EPS on my Matlab R2009a/64/Win7.
[EDITED] You can use FEX: ScreenCapture for the get(FigHandle, 'OuterPosition') to capture the window border also.
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Razvan
Razvan on 12 Aug 2013
Yes, I want the full window with menubar and toolbar. TIF, JPG or anything else is fine too.

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per isakson
per isakson on 11 Aug 2013
Edited: per isakson on 11 Aug 2013
-noui, Suppress printing of user interface controls. See "Excluding User
Interface Controls".
But you want them included;-(
In the Preferences | Figure Copy Template there is a Show uicontrols check-box.

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