Can you use openfig to open a variable

I want to use openfig to open a gui but if filerequest = help.fig open the help file if filerequest = submit.fig open submit.fig.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

filerequest = 'help.fig';
openfig(filerequest)

[Marc]

Thanks,

I'm still having an issue though. I have a checkbox if the fig needs to be opened and a select button. However when I run the GUI it says undefined function of variable 'DEnknown'

% --- Executes on button press in checkbox5.
function checkbox5_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to checkbox5 (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)

% Hint: get(hObject,'Value') returns toggle state of checkbox5
global DEnknown 
DEnknown = 'efficiency.fig'

% --- Executes on button press in pushbutton1.
function pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to pushbutton1 (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
close(gcf)
openfig(DEnknown)

[Walter Roberson]

Variables must be declared "global" in each routine that wants to access them.

[Marc]

so the openfig would need to be written opengig(global DEnknown)? Thanks again for your help

[Walter Roberson]

No, your routine for pushbutton1_Callback would need

global DEknown

added before it uses openfig()

[Marc]

Thanks very much it's working now