menu
(Not recommended) Create multiple-choice dialog box
Compatibility
Note
The menu function is not recommended. Use the listdlg function instead.
Description
choice = menu(message,opt1,opt2,...,optn) displays
a modal menu dialog box containing the text in message and the choices
specified by opt1, opt2,... optn. The
menu function returns the number of the selected menu item, or 0 if the
user clicks the close button on the window. Specify message as a character
vector or string scalar. Specify opt1, opt2,...
optn as character vectors or string scalars.
choice = menu(message,options) specifies the
choices as a cell array of character vectors or string array.
If the user's terminal provides a graphics capability, menu displays
the menu items as push buttons in a figure window (Example 1). Otherwise. they will be given
as a numbered list in the Command Window (Example 2).
Examples
Example 1
On a system with a display, menu displays choices as buttons in a
dialog
box:
choice = menu('Choose a color','Red','Blue','Green')
The number entered by the user in response to the prompt is returned as
choice (i.e., choice = 2 implies that the user
selected Blue).
After input is accepted, the dialog box closes, returning the output in
choice. You can use choice to control the color of a
graph:
t = 0:.1:60; s = sin(t); color = ['r','b','g'] plot(t,s,color(choice))
Example 2
On a system without a display, menu displays choices in the Command
Window:
choice = menu('Choose a color','Red','Blue','Green')
displays the following text.
----- Choose a color ----- 1) Red 2) Blue 3) Green Select a menu number:
Tips
To call menu from within a callback of a UIControl
or other UI component, set that object's Interruptible property to
'on'. For more information, see UIControl Properties.