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dir2menu

02 Oct 2006 (Updated 19 Jan 2009)

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Dynamically creates a menu tree at run time by replicating a directory folder tree.

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Description

DIR2MENU populates a menu by selectively replicating a folder structure. The menu's callbacks are populated with handles to the functions in the target folders.

Examples:
H=DIR2MENU(PARENTDIRECTORY)
H=DIR2MENU(PARENTDIRECTORY, OPTIONS)

PARENTDIRECTORY is the folder to be replicated
OPTIONS (if supplied) is a cell array of menu properties that will be passed by DIR2MENU to the MATLAB uimenu function when it is called.

H points to the created figure or uicontextmenu.

As the menu is created dynamically at run time, DIR2MENU removes the need to edit a GUI when a new function is added to an application. They can be added instead by using the system directory/file manager and the folder/file naming convention described in the online help.

MATLAB release

MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b)

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Updates
19 Oct 2006	DIR2MENU now adds items to and/or replaces items in a standard MATLAB figure menu. This gives access to the standard "Desktop" and "Tools" functions for example, including figure docking
01 Nov 2006	Bug Fix.
20 Nov 2006	Fix fix
11 Dec 2006	Now includes support for external libraries/toolboxes. Evals replaced with function handles
10 Jan 2007	Now also supports uicontextmenu creation
19 Jan 2009	Accumulated minor improvements/fixes

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
gui tools	Malcolm Lidierth	22 Oct 2008 08:42:03
example	Malcolm Lidierth	22 Oct 2008 08:42:03
directory uimenu uicontextmenu	Malcolm Lidierth	22 Oct 2008 08:42:03

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