updating handles in gui/guide for webcam

hi

I am trying to create a GUI where a user can select between the different webcams attached to the pc. Using the preview function u can see the live data form the webcam.

My problem is switching between webcams. I stored the webcam in handles.cam and I don't know how to update it to the new webcaminformation. usesing delete doesn't work(since it makes handles.cam invalid).

        closePreview(handles.cam);

        selectedcamera=cellstr(get(hObject,'String'));
        selectedcamera=selectedcamera{get(hObject,'Value')};
        selectedcamera = strtrim(selectedcamera);
        selectedcamera=char(selectedcamera);

        handles.cam=webcam(selectedcamera);

        Preview_Open(handles);

Answer 1

[Mischa Kim]

Christian, I solved a similar problem by removing the associated field of the handles object.

So essentially (and following your approach), you would close the preview and remove the webcam object. After that you can pick another webcam and create the object.

 closePreview(handles.wc);
 handles = rmfield(handles,'wc');
 ...
 handles.wc = webcam;

[Christian Buchgeher]

Unfortunately this solution does not work.

the webcam stays active and the preview window goes black.

[Mischa Kim]

Check out the attached app.

[Christian Buchgeher]

It does close the handles.cam but somehow the webcam still stays active. and it does open the new webcam for a glimpse of a second.

I have the preview window in an axces field .

and different sliders to change the properties of the webcam.

i also attached my code files.