Compiling existing code into web apps

Hi all,

I recently played around with the web app server and run into a problem. I have a GUI from a previous project which uses the uifigure() and its components programatically to create a GUI (basically the same components availible trough the app designer). The app works well with Release 2020a, however compiling the code into a web app seems to be impossible. Do I really have to rebuilt the GUI in App designer (.mlap file) in order to be able to compile it into a web app, or did I miss something important?

Thank you for your time!

Answer 1

[Mohammad Sami]

The easiest way would be to create a blank app and then add a startupFcn.

In the startupFcn you can pass in the app.UIFigure to your exisiting code.

You may need to slightly modify your exisiting code.

% Code that executes after component creation
function startupFcn(app, varargin)
    yourexistingfunction(app.UIFigure);
end

You can add the startupFcn by clicking the App Input Arguments. You can use varargin as you cant leave it blank.

[Julian Schmid]

That should work for now, thank you!