imshow inhibits gui from running minimized
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I have an question concerning the imshow command for GUI. I am processing a lot images and wanted to display the current image using the axes feature. It works fine, only that the whole window gets refreshed everytime a new image is processed. Thats why i can't minimize the window which stays always in the foreground.
What could i do to avoid this?
Code looks like this: It reads some images, does the processing and safes them afterwards.
function execute_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
global filenames
global path
for i=1:length(filenames)
nfilename2=[path,filenames{i}];
pic = imread(nfilename2);
axes(handles.axes1);
imshow(pic);
end
Thank you!
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Sean de Wolski
on 21 Mar 2014
Specify the parent for imshow to plot to inside of imshow, rather than as axes(handles.axes1)
ax = gca;
imshow('cameraman.tif')
Hide figure
imshow('peppers.png','parent',ax)
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Erik
on 5 Jun 2014
The solution from Sean does not seem to work in a gui.
- Suppose we create a guide with only a single axes 'axes1'.
- In the OpeningFnc we create, initialize and start a timer object to trigger every 0.1 sec.
- In the timer callback function we call :
imshow('peppers.png','parent',handles.axes1);
If it runs, then the gui window get on top with every call to imshow. Not so nice for live image analysis applications. Therefor I prefere therefor to use simple image instead of imshow and change the axis to off.
function imshowguitest_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin)
handles.output = hObject;
handles.timer = timer;
handles.timer.StartDelay = 0.1;
handles.timer.Period = 0.1;
handles.timer.ExecutionMode = 'fixedSpacing';
handles.timer.TimerFcn = {@timer_Callback, hObject};
start(handles.timer);
guidata(hObject, handles);
function figure1_CloseRequestFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
stop(handles.timer);
delete(hObject);
function timer_Callback(~, ~,hObject)
handles = guidata(hObject);
imshow('peppers.png','parent',handles.axes1);
% a = imread('peppers.png');
% image(a,'parent',handles.axes1);
% axis(handles.axes1,'off');
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Sean de Wolski
on 9 Jun 2014
For this I would take a different approach. Instead of rebuilding the image on each iteration, just update its color data ( 'CData' ). See my example here:
hImage = imshow(cat(3,ones(200,400),zeros(200,400,2)));
T = timer('Period',1,'TasksToExecute',10,...
'Timerfcn',@(~,~)set(hImage,'CData',circshift(get(hImage,'CData'),[0 0 1])),...
'StartDelay',1,'ExecutionMode','FixedRate');
start(T);
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