[Sea-mat] GUI multi-axes plotting question

[Lynn Yarmey]

Hello all!

I am very sorry to bulk up your inboxes, but I am hoping someone can  
help me with a (hopefully) quick question!     I am creating a GUI  
for at-sea CTD visualizations, so there are 4 axes with drop downs to  
switch variables,  depth range limit boxes, etc.   I am using GUIDE.

My problem:   I would like to have a default set of figures come up  
when the GUI is started rather than force the user to use the drop- 
downs to see figures.   When I try to enter any plotting lines in the  
'OpeningFcn' my drop-down boxes no longer appear.   When I step  
through the script in the debugger, the menus appear as normal.    If  
I keep all plotting code after the popup Callbacks (ie. so axes are  
blank on startup) and only have data loading and handle assignments  
in the OpeningFcn, everything works nicely.

I thought I might have been altering necessary handles or the initial  
definition of hObject but I can't see where this is happening!?

Any thoughts?  Sloppy writing?  Fundamental misunderstandings?    
Places where I can find better GUI help (the demos are great, but I  
can't find anything in the matlab support pages)?

I am attaching a word document with before and after screen shots  
(please disregard the lack of colorbars in the latter) and what I  
believe are the problematic lines.

I am running R14 on a Windows machine.   (The problem does not occur  
when I am on my mac running R2006a)

Many thanks!
Lynn Yarmey
SIO

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