Divert system command output from command line to textbox in GUI

Hello, I'm designing a GUI involving callings to external functions (.exe) (e.g. system('doThis.exe') ) Those functions produce a lot of output to the MatLab command line and I'd like to simply divert them to/reproduce them in a textbox in my GUI. Is there a simple way to do this? I am using GUIDE but my textbox is created programmaticaly.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

If you do not need to have it happen as the output is produced, then assign the output of system() to a variable and display that variable. The variable will not be available until the command finishes.

[Nuno Benavente]

Thanks. I've just tried. it works but the results are not what I expected. The output is simply '0', not the useful output text I see in the command line as the external function is running... and is there a way to reproduce the text on the fly?

[Walter Roberson]

 [status, cmdout] = system('doThis.exe');

then cmdout is the string.

Capturing the output on-the-fly is messy. I think it was discussed about 3 weeks ago, but I do not seem to find the discussion.

[Nuno Benavente]

Thank you again, that worked fine :) I think I'll forget the on-the-fly reproduction for now at least.