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UIGETVARIABLES: Dialog to pass variables from workspace into GUI

29 Aug 2012 (Updated 01 May 2013)

UIGETVARIABLES creates a dialog box for selecting variables from the base workspace

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Description	It is common to write GUI-driven applications which require end users to pass in some variables from the workspace when calling the function to launch the GUI, e.g. myPlottingGUI(X,Y) UIGETVARIABLES allows your users to interactively select workspace variables from a dialog instead of having to type variable names when launching your app. You can restrict which types of variables are allowed for each input, making it easier for users to successfully pass the right data into your app. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
Acknowledgements	This file inspired Cascade Training Gui: Specify Ground Truth and Lens Distortion Explorer.
Required Products	MATLAB
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.14 (R2012a)

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19 Apr 2013	Adam Filion	Hi Scott, As an enhancement request, it'd be nice if this could also return the names of the variables selected from the workspace, for use in things like labeling axes.
17 Apr 2013	Steph T	Simple, effective, and does the job very nicely! Exactly what I was looking for. thanks!
15 Nov 2012	Szilárd Németh	I was about to create an app and was exactly looking for something like this. Great one, thanks Scott!
17 Sep 2012	Adam Filion	Very useful! Thanks!

Updates
29 Aug 2012	Bug fix.
01 May 2013	New feature: Second output argument to return names of selected variables. As Adam suggests, this can be useful for doing things like labeling axes with names meaningful to your end user.