set a pic in GUI

Hi,

I need help on the following matter:

I am desgning a GUI and I would like to set a PIC that when the user open the GUI it will appear only for few seconds, then the GUI intrface will start.

It is just like a welcoming pic.

I used the following command to convert the pic to fig

img = imread('~~.jpg');

imshow(img);

savefig('~~~.fig');

[Adam Danz]

Where should the image appear? In an axes that is embedded within the GUI? In the GUI Figure background? On a separate window?

How did you create you GUI? Guide? App designer? uicontrol?

[R Hebi]

I used Guide

I want it to appear on a separate window.

Answer 1

[Ankit]

Updated based on Adam's comment! Thanks for your feedback.

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Hi Abdullah,

You can modify the below code based on your need. Include the following code in your opening function of GUI.

function xxxx_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin)
% Choose default command line output for xxxx
handles.output = hObject;

% Update handles structure
guidata(hObject, handles);

%creating a new figure 
Figure = ...
    figure('Name',   'Splashscreen',...
    'Color',         'w',...
    'NumberTitle',   'off',...
    'Toolbar',       'none',...
    'Menubar',       'none',...
    'Resize',        'off',...
    'Visible',       'off',...
    'Units',         'Pixels',...
    'Position',      [624 694 494 409]);
movegui(Figure,'center'); % moving the Figure to the center
axes('Units',    	'Normalize',...
    'position',    [0 0 1 1],...
    'color',       'w');
img = imread('~~~.jpg');
imshow(img); 
axis equal; % for setting the aspect ratio to equal so the figure appears correctly!
set(Figure, 'Visible', 'on');
pause(3); % pause the splashscreen for 3 seconds
close(Figure); %closing the figure

[Adam Danz]

The figure code is outside of the OpeningFcn() in your answer. Move the 'end' to the end to correct that error.

Here's two more suggestions.

1) make the axes fit the figure window by using

axes('Units',    	'Normalize',...
    'position',    [0 0 1 1],...
    'color',       'w');

2) set the aspect ratio to equal so the figure appears correctly

axis equal % after imshow()

[Ankit]

Thank you Adam :)

"end" was copying mistake from my code!

[Adam Danz]

Looks good! +1