How to access a text in that edit text area in GUI

How to access a text in that edit text area in GUI

[Geoff Hayes]

Rather than copying and pasting the title to your question to the question body, why not provide some context? Are you trying to access an edit text field in a GUI from within the callback of some other control?

[Stephen23]

@cse batch4: if you want advice then we need to know some details of the code, or even better the actual code itself. You can upload code using the paperclip button above the textbox.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

If h is the handle of a uicontrol object, then this code will get its text:

get(h,'String')

There is a list of what this string corresponds to for all uicontrol types in the uicontrol properties documentation.