uigetfiles

GUI for selecting multiple files useful before MATLAB® R14 (Windows only)

Description

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NOTE: MATLAB®'s UIGETFILE function supports multiple file selection as of MATLAB® R14. Here's a link to the online documentation:

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/uigetfile.html
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This download is for Windows only. It is a DLL- and an M-file (the latter being the help), that together allow getting multiple file names.

There are two versions of this DLL available.

The first was tested on Windows 98 and Windows 2000 running MATLAB® 5.2 (R10) and 6.5 (R13), but should also run on Windows 95 as well as with other MATLAB® versions. However, it cannot be compiled into a standalone application.

The second was tested on Windows 98 and Windows 2000 running MATLAB® 6.0 (R12) and 6.5 (R13), but should also run on Windows 95. It will not run under MATLAB® 5.3.1 (R11.1) and previous. This version can be compiled into a standalone application.

Files included are the two DLL-files described above (each with a README), an M-file help file, and the CPP source.

To use the files, place the appropriate M-file and DLL-file in the same directory, and make sure that directory is on your MATLAB® path.

The original source files were written by Dave J Warren, based on Win32 API.

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; GUI for Multivariate Image Analysis of Multispectral Images
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 5.2 (R10)
• Other Files: license.txt, ; uigetfiles/src/uigetfiles.cpp, ; uigetfiles/uigetfiles.m, ; uigetfiles/WorksOnR10thruR13ButNotCompilable/README.txt, ; uigetfiles/WorksOnR10thruR13ButNotCompilable/uigetfiles.dll, ; uigetfiles/WorksOnR12thruR13IsCompilable/README.txt, ; uigetfiles/WorksOnR12thruR13IsCompilable/uigetfiles.dll

[Michael Spencer]

You just saved me a ton of time. Thanks. Uigetfiles works flawlessly with MATLAB V6 and Windows 2000. This should have been part of MATLAB. What was the author of uigetfile thinking?

[Ariel Friedlander]

This is fantastic. Agree this should have been product. Many thanks.

[anita narasimhan]

hi
i am unable to open the *.dll and *.m file to review them.
i work on unix machines using MATLAB R12. could you
kindly send me the unzipped version of these two files
to my email given below?
[e-mail]
thank you
anita

[Chad English]

Excellent function, works great. The only thing keeping it from a 5 is that you can't pass it an initial folder to start from. You can't do it with the standard uigetfile either, but I find it annoying to always have to go through a directory tree to get back to the folder I was just at.

[Katie Image]

Matlab really needed this!
I find this very useful but something I'd really like to see added:
With uigetfile you can pass it a filter string like 'c:/data/*_input.mat' and it will open to the correct directory and filter on the string *_input.mat, with uigetfiles you can't pass it a directory or a string to filter on, it will filter on extensions only.

[Katie Image]

Another comment:
You can't do multiple file types in uigetfiles, but you can in uigetfile. I wanted to use a filter of {'*.adv'; '*.mat'} which works in uigetfile, so the user can select to view either .adv files or .mat files but not both. With uigetfiles you can view both types together but not seperately... I'm looking forward to the next version of uigetfiles :)

[Adam Gordon]

Works great! Thanks for your contribution.

[Chris Anderson]

What a timesaver! Appears to work fine with MATLAB R13. Mathworks should seriously consider implementing this functionality within the standard uigetfile.

[William Buttler, Anh-Trinh Nguyen and Ch Buttler]

Does not work correctly. In spite of the fact that the comments indicate the
Bug Fix in October 2002, the Bug still apparently exists. The real question is where
is it picking up its initial directory to select a file from? Supposedly you can pass
this variable in. We have. It doesn't work. It would be nice of the compilable code
were available. Then we might be able to debug it. The bub may be a
forward- or back-slash problem. Multiple selection capability is a good thing, however.

[William Buttler, Anh-Trinh Nguyen and Ch Buttler]

The latest update works great! Latest Bug fix is in December 2002. Good Job.

[John Doe]

Just what i was looking for...

[John Doe]

Works well, but I can't compile programs using this function. I agree that Matlab should add this to the standard functions.

[Philip Requejo]

Works great! Very helpful. Thanks.

[Noel Dacruz Evora]

Very helpful but it's not possible to define a FILTERSPEC like '*xxx*.txt' in order to list all the files having the word xxx in their names.

[Mor Ftp]

I think wish below is too much. That's work great. Thanks

[Andy Welch]

Perfect-- just what I was looking for! Works as advertised!

[Trevor Fichera]

Works well but does not allow user to specify choice of extensions (built-in uigetfile does). Would like to specify [f,p]=uigetfiles({'*.txt';'*.csv'}) and have same functionality as uigetfile except be able to select multiple files.

[Konstantin Galybin]

Works superbly for less than 1048 files, but not any more...

[Tadas Surkys]

 

[Eric Zilli]

works perfectly in winxp with matlab r13

[Gauthier Fleutot]

works as expected, good work!
I would wish a 3rd output parameter: the index of the selected filter (see matlab's uigetfile).

[Dave Hankin]

Works great on Windows XP Pro with R13, no need to compile. Just what I needed, thanks.

[Philippe Archambault]

Exactly what I needed... Good work!

[Martin Panzner]

works great, exactly what I was looking for

[Diego Andrés]

Just what I needed, thanks it´s a very good tool !

[nickel nie]

great!
my matlab is just 6.1.

[Young Hyun Kim]

Thanks,it's great!

[Lingqing Zhang]

Great code! Thanks.

[David Racine]

Perfect

[M. Ayres]

Great as a replacement for the horribly crippled uigetfile that comes with v7.

Would be even better if you could specify the the default file view, sort, and maybe window size.

[Scott Miller]

Here's an update to my previous comments abouth running under R14 SP3. I was able to fix the aberant behaviour by putting

disp('');

ahead of uigetfiles as in the following example:

clear all;
close all;
set(0, 'DefaultFigurePaperOrientation', 'landscape');

%%
disp('');
[filenamesonly,pathname]=uigetfiles('*.txt','What files');

Apparently the "disp('');" changes the focus or something; at any rate it seems to work if the command window has been written to it before the dialog is called. In my earlier attempts from cell mode, I didn't have the disp command.

[Ben Rogers]

Excellent, exactly what I needed, Cheers.

[Jonathan Victor]

Does the job as a workaround for the R14 bug that prevents uigetfile from selecting a large number of files

[Tushar Gurjar]

A Very Useful Script. Good work. Keep it up.

[jan becker]

great!! this was exactly what I was looking for!!! saved me a lot of time!! thanks again

[chang xiaojian]

haha thank u

[ripa tiger]

When selecting multiple file names, the cell filename will put the final file at the first, and then put the other files, any reason about this?

[John Simons]

Very useful for getting around the uigetfiles character limit, many people are having problems with.

[Gireesh E]

nice one..but can I get a .dll for 64 bit windows?

[Sandeep Manyam]

And Dave's legacy lives on

[Sandeep Manyam]