Thread Subject:

reading input from a GUI

Folks,

Simple question. I'm avoiding "inputdlg" in order to
customize my GUI, but I need something similar. How can I
store what I enter in a text field?

In article <fo5tmh$h2s$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
Thiago Jota <thiago@mathworks.com> wrote:

>Simple question. I'm avoiding "inputdlg" in order to
>customize my GUI, but I need something similar. How can I
>store what I enter in a text field?

If you mean "store into a variable that which is already
in a text field", then the answer is that you get() the 'String'
property of the text field handle. The result will be a string.
If you need the numeric equivilent of a number represented
by the string, then after validating that the string looks like
a number, you can call str2num or str2double or sscanf .

If you mean "Put a value into a text field", then the answer
is that you set() the 'String' property of the text field with
a string. If your existing value is a number, then you can
form a string representation of the number by calling num2str
or sprintf.
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"Thiago Jota" <thiago@mathworks.com> wrote in message
<fo5tmh$h2s$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Folks,
>
> Simple question. I'm avoiding "inputdlg" in order to
> customize my GUI, but I need something similar. How can I
> store what I enter in a text field?

Hello
There is a simple gui program on the File Central
(http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=18212&objectType=file)
You can modify it according to your requirement to send
output to the workspace. Instead of a radio button make a
edit box and get the value from the get() .
HTH
Vihang