Grab and reference data from OpeningFcn?

Hi,

I was wondering if there's a way to call data from OpeningFcn in a Matlab GUI. I need to reference an initialized value in OpeningFcn to one that's updated with the user input once a pushbutton is pressed.

The initialized data (xi) is compared to the user's gui input _(xgui). If they're not equal, an if statement will run.

if xi ~= xgui
  xi = xgui

      for ...
        ...(some other code)...
      end
end

I've tried creating variables and structures in OpeningFcn, referencing it using handles.OpeningFcn, but I can't seem to figure it out. Can someone please help?

Thanks!

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

rtbme17 - if you have (for example) variables in your OpeningFcn that you want to reference later, then save them to the handles structure. For example,

 function GUI_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin)

 % do some stuff
 x = 42;

 % save x to the handles structure
 handles.x = x;
 guidata(hObject, handles);

Note that the guidata(hObject, handles); is important as it will save the updated handles structure so that all other callbacks have access to this updated structure (and so can access x). Then in some callback you would do

 function pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)

 % use x
 if isfield(handles, 'x')
    y = handles.x * 2;
    % etc.
 end

In the above, we check to see if x is a fields within handles before trying to use it.

[rbme17]

That was super helpful, thanks so much!