GridLayout

An intuitive and flexible layout manager

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GridLayout was inspired by the GridBagLayout manager. It is equally flexible but more intuitive for my taste and it also requires less boilerplate code.

Each cell is a uicontainer and can hold only one child. Unlike GridBagLayout, children are added at creation time by passing the cell container handle as their parent. No 'Add' methods are needed, which reduces the amount of code.

Cell sizes can be specified in pixels or as relative values. Merging and removing cells are supported, as well as various alignment options: stretch, center, left, right, top, bottom.

The archive also includes demos illustrating the GridLayout capabilities . Bug reports and suggestion for improvement are very much appreciated. Download, unpack, and enjoy!

Cite As

Mihail Petrov (2026). GridLayout (https://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/29472-gridlayout), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired by: GridBagLayout

Inspired: Sim.I.am

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General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.5.0.0

Forgotten to add ParseArgs and GetArg functions to the release.

1.4.0.0

Added support for:

1) axes with legends (as requested)

2) nested layouts (as requested)

3) automatic row/column sizing (experimental)

1.1.0.0

A few bugs were fixed and an additional demo added.

1.0.0.0