How to call old GUI in the current working GUI?

I have a current running GUI in which I need to pick an image.

Later, I want the same Image that I picked now to be present in the old GUI that I gonna call.

HERE IS THE CODE OF THE CURRENT RUNNING GUI:

%In the current running GUI I'll pick an image

 axes(handles.axes1);

 global ImageOriginal

 [baseFileName,folder]=uigetfile('*'); % read the input image

 ImageOriginal=imread([folder,baseFileName]);

 imshow(ImageOriginal);

HERE IS THE PLACE I CALL THE OLD GUI BY THE HELP OF A PUSH BUTTON:

 manual_ImageGUI %this is the .m file of my old GUI. I call it in the Current GUI

%But the problem is, when I call this "manual_ImageGUI", again i need to pick an image in it. What i need is, as i already chose the image in the current GUI it should be used in the old GUI too when i call it.

The code in Manual_ImageGUI is :

 axes(handles.axes1);

 global ImageOriginal

 [baseFileName,folder]=uigetfile('*'); % read the input image

 im=imread([folder,baseFileName]);

 [~,~ , numberOfColorChannels]=size(im);

if numberOfColorChannels > 1

 %  im = rgb2gray(Iinitial);  % converts to gray scale

 else
  im = Iinitial; % It's already gray.

 end

 im1=imadjust(im);
 imshow(im1);

any help is appreciated... thanks

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

I'd just create the full filename with fullfile() and then write that out to a mat file that your second GUI can read in.

fullFileName = fullfile(folder, baseFileName);
save('myApp.mat', 'fullFileName');

To recall

storedStructure = load('myApp.mat');
fullFileName = storedStructure.fullFileName;

[Manoj Kumar]

It is working but I am facing an error when I try to convert it from rgb2gray and imadjust of that fullFileName in the second GUI Here is the CODE in second OLD GUI:

storedStructure = load('myApp.mat');

fullFileName = storedStructure.fullFileName;

im=rgb2gray(fullFileName);

im2=imadjust(im);

imshow(im2);

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THE ERROR IS:

Error using rgb2gray>parse_inputs (line 81) MAP must be a m x 3 array.

Error in rgb2gray (line 35) X = parse_inputs(varargin{:});

Error using imadjust

Expected input number 1, I, to be one of these types:

double, uint8, uint16, int16, single

Instead its type was char.

\\\\

So how to get that "fullFileName" as an image FORMAT, so that i can use that to convert to gray scale ..

[Image Analyst]

fullFileName is the string filename. You can store that or the image variable itself. If you store the filename string, you'll have to use imread to read the file into a variable. It sounds like you're rather just store the image array variable itself (though it will make your mat file larger).

fullFileName = fullfile(folder, baseFileName);
rgbImage = imread(fullFileName); % Read it in from disk.
save('myApp.mat', 'rgbImage');

To recall

storedStructure = load('myApp.mat');
rgbImage = storedStructure.rgbImage ;

[Manoj Kumar]

It is working perfectly. I appreciate your help.

Thank you...

[Manoj Kumar]

Is there any other way to do this , as in this one it is creating a Microsoft access file ?

Thanks...

[Manoj Kumar]

I wish to call 2 images into another GUI and i am unable to save 2 images in the same "myApp.mat" file.. how can i do that??

Any suggestion is appreciated....

[Image Analyst]

Why can't you do that? Just call save

save('myapp.mat', 'image1', 'image2');

Obviously, use whatever variable names you have.

[Manoj Kumar]

Thank you ...