Elegant way to obtain the values of multiple button selection?

My ui has 15 radio buttons and a couple of potentials values that can be selected by the users. The buttons are systematically named and numbered. Due to the fact that eval should be avoide, is there a elegant way to check for the selected buttons and obtain the values?

Thankt for your advice. Best, peter

Answer 1

[Adam]

You can create an array of radiobuttons at the start of UI as e.g.

hRadioButtons = [ handles.rb1, handles.rb2,...handles.rb15 ];

then

get( hRadioButtons, 'Value' )

will return a vector of all the results.

Alternatively you can create this array by searching your figure for children and check that their type is a UIControl with style 'radiobutton', but that is a little less structured and the ordering in which you get the children will depend (I think) on what order you added them in the UI).

You can also play around with syntax like

handles.( ['rb', str2double(n)] )

to access a radiobutton using a dynamic string. I have done this on occasions when I have named e.g. radio buttons with equivalent names as I have in an enumeration. It does obfuscate the access somewhat for readability and potential bug fixing, but can sometimes be neat if you get it right

[Stephen23]

+1. Both get and set offer syntaxes for handling arrays of handles and multiple data values, and these are (in my experience) much faster and more convenient than multiple functions calls.