MATLAB Creating Graphical User Interfaces

8 Programming a GUIDE UI

% hObject handle to slider1 (see GCBO)

% eventdata reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB

% handles structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)

% Hints: get(hObject,'Value') returns position of slider

% get(hObject,'Min') and get(hObject,'Max') to determine...

slider_value = get(hObject,'Value');

display(slider_value);

When the end user moves the slider, the callback function gets the current value of the

slider and displays it in the Command Window. By default, the slider’s range is [0, 1]. To

modify the range, set the slider’s Max and Min properties to the maximum and minimum

values, respectively.

List Box

Populate Items in the List Box

If you are developing a UI using GUIDE, use the list box CreateFcn callback to add

items to the list box.

This code is an example of a list box CreateFcn callback that populates the list box with

the items, Red, Green, and Blue.

function listbox1_CreateFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)

% hObject handle to listbox1 (see GCBO)

% eventdata reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB

% handles empty - handles not created until after all CreateFcns

% Hint: listbox controls usually have a white background on Windows.

if ispc && isequal(get(hObject,'BackgroundColor'), ...

get(0,'defaultUicontrolBackgroundColor'))

set(hObject,'BackgroundColor','white');

end

set(hObject,'String',{'Red';'Green';'Blue'});

The last line, set(hObject,'String',{'Red';'Green';'Blue'}), populates the

contents of the list box.

If you are developing a UI programmatically (without GUIDE), then populate the list box

when you create it. For example:

function myui()