How to display Heatmap plot in UI Axes of matlab app designer ?

I tried using

heatmap(app.UIFigure.UIAxes,A,XValue_Text,X2Value_Text)
heatmap(app.UIFigure,app.UIAxes,A,XValue_Text,X2Value_Text)

but both options are not working and showing errors.

Please guide.

Thank You

[Ankit]

Check this out Displaying Graphics in App Designer

Grid layout managers and scrollable containers do not support axes, polaraxes, geoaxes, or charts (such as heatmap, geobubble, or stackedplot) that can be the child of a figure

You can display it on figure not on the axes. But you want to display it on the UIaxes. I would recommend to contact MATLAB support.

cdata = [45 60 32; 43 54 76; 32 94 68; 23 95 58];
xvalues = {'Small','Medium','Large'};
yvalues = {'Green','Red','Blue','Gray'};
heatmap(app.UIFigure,xvalues,yvalues,cdata)

Answer 1

[Mohammad Sami]

Place Uipanel in the position you want heatmap.

h = heatmap(app.Panel1,tbl,xvar,yvar);

[Rohit Deshmukh]

Hello Sami,

Thanks a lot for answer!

It's not showing any errors now.

But Unfortunately, the UI axes are blank and cannot see Heat map over there.

[Mohammad Sami]

Can you try this in console

f = uifigure;
g = uigridlayout(f,[1 1]);
p = uipanel(g);
p.Layout.Row = 1;
p.Layout.Column = 1;
heatmap(p,rand(10,10));

[Rohit Deshmukh]

Hi,

the previous solution is working with a different panel.

I figured out that UI axes is superimposing the HeatMap plot.

I tried to disable the UI axes , but still the blank thing is superimposing Heatmap.

Is there a solution by which I somehow delete/disappear the UI Axes when HeatMap plot is selected?

[Mohammad Sami]

you can set the visibility of the axes to off perhaps

Answer 2

[Sebastien]

Hello,

I have the same problem with the heatmap function and App Designer. So I tried the Accepted Answer but it just does not work on my side.

I added a blank panel and tried different versions of the code such as:

heatmap(app.Panel,tbl,xvar,yvar)

heatmap(app.Panel,xvar,yvar,tbl)

So I don't understand what I did wrong...

heatmap(xvar,yvar,tbl) works fine outside of the App Designer.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Mohammad Sami]

what is the version of matlab you have

[Sebastien]

R2018a

[Mohammad Sami]

As at 2018a, heatmap was not supported by AppDesigner.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2018a/matlab/creating_guis/graphics-support-in-app-designer.html

See if you are able to update your version to a newer version. Seems like it was partially supported starting from R2018b.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2018b/matlab/creating_guis/graphics-support-in-app-designer.html

[Mohammad Sami]

If you can't update then you may have to pop up a separate figure window and display the heatmap separately.

[Sebastien]

Ok, thanks for your answer.