Run .m script from GUI

I have a GUI that takes user defined inputs, and I want the user to be able to press a pushbutton on the GUI that then runs the .m script using the variables.

So i have, for the push button:

% --- Executes Setup Balance on button press 

function pb_balance_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)

% hObject    handle to pb_balance (see GCBO)

% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB

% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)

run BalanceSetup 

Where the button is called pb_balance and the .m script is called BalanceSetup. Will this work or do i need a different command to run it? The .m file is 500 lines long so i don't want to include it in my .m file for the GUI.

Thanks

Answer 1

You don't need to type run. Just the name of the script will cause the script to execute.

so in the same place that i currently have the file name, but without run?

Yes. Note that if BalanceSetup is a script and not a function then any variables created by the script will exist in the callback workspace, not the base workspace. If this is the last line of the callback, as you seem to show, then those variables will disappear once the callback is done. If this is fine, then proceed. If you expect those variables to appear in the base workspace, then you will need to do something else.

Thank you!