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How to create a menu with checkbox in app designer?
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Hi everyone,
I've been working on a gui in app designer for a while now. I'd like to add a top menu bar feature that contains a dropdown menu with four different fields. In each field, I'd like there to be at least two checkboxes. The purpose is for the user to select which units they'd like for their data to be processed and plotted (see image below).
I plan on using the checkbox to indicate which option is selected in each menu, as well as editing a public property that contains conversions to use within some code. When one checkbox is selected in each sub menu, I'd also like to deselect the other checkboxes within the same submenu
(e.g. distance> meters[x], feet[ ] --> distance> meters[ ], feet [x])
I've read the matlab documentation from this link https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uimenu.html, but I don't understand how to create the checkbox option in app designer.
Can someone explain to me how to do so in design view/code view ?
Sample of menu (meters and feet should be checkboxes):
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/280774/image.png)
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Mohammad Sami
on 31 Mar 2020
There is a property "Checked" for uimenu.
In app designer select the menu and in property inspector tick the checked box.
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MCL MATLABFOUR
on 20 May 2021
When I check the checked box and run the code, it does not give me the option to check or uncheck the box. Do you know how to fix that? I would like to give the user to check certain options but not have to check all of the boxes
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