Unable to Print Graph being Generated in axes.handle4

Hi,

function pushbutton5_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to pushbutton5 (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
plot(handles.axes4)

The above code i want to use to print graph generated in handles.axes4. But i am unable to do so. What will be the solution. I have attached a screenshot, for pushbutton5 (reffered as Print) where on clicking the pushbutton5 graph should plot. Thanks

[Avinav Kumar]

for pushbutton5 (reffered as Print) where on clicking the pushbutton5 graph should print and save the graph. Thanks

[Walter Roberson]

You should be calling print() not plot() there.

But are you sure you want to send to the printer, rather than saving to a file with saveas() ?

[Avinav Kumar]

Tried saveas(handles.axes4) getting error as follows

Error in

matlab.graphics.internal.figfile.FigFile/read>@(hObject,eventdata)Main('pushbutton5_Callback',hObject,eventdata,guidata(hObject))

Error using Main>pushbutton2_Callback (line 157)

Error while evaluating UIControl Callback.

What can be the wayout.

[Avinav Kumar]

I am using

get(handles.axes4);
[file,path,indx] = uiputfile('*.jpg');

I am getting option to save the file but on saving no file is getting generated / saved at the desired location.

[Walter Roberson]

You need to supply a filename to save into.

[Avinav Kumar]

yes i did supply. i saved with a filename

[Walter Roberson]

You posted that you tried

saveas(handles.axes4)

but you would need

[file,filepath] = uiputfile('*.jpg');
if ~ischar(file); return; end    %user cancel
filename = fullfile(filepath, file);
saveas(handles.axes4,filename);

[Avinav Kumar]

Thanks a lot Walter. It is working. Just one more query. The entire GUI is getting saved but i wanted to save only graph which is geeting plotted in axes4.

[Avinav Kumar]

I am not getting accept this answer option. But this is accepted answer. Thanks

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You posted that you tried

saveas(handles.axes4)

but you would need

[file,filepath] = uiputfile('*.jpg');
if ~ischar(file); return; end    %user cancel
filename = fullfile(filepath, file);
saveas(handles.axes4,filename);

However, to save just the axes, you should use the new https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/exportgraphics.html (R202a or later), or use the File Exchange contribution export_fig if you have an older MATLAB than that.

[Avinav Kumar]

Thanks a lot Walter. I could extract the figure / image.