App Designer: The Value Assigned Might Not be Used

Hello,

So I'm trying to read an image (2D matrix) on App Designer and run it through a function to do some filtering and analysis. I see the final value that I want (I just want to sum all the values in the image matrix after applying a filter) in the command window but when I try to make it display in a box I created with AppDesigner nothing shows up. On further inspection hoering on the "output" argument of the function, I see the message "The Value assigned to the variable 'Output' might be unused.

I'm also having trouble utilizing filter_size = app.FilterSizeEditField ... when I type in a value in the box and feed it through the function it pops back saying that "size inputs must be numeric"

filter_size = app.FilterSizeEditField;
%filter_size=3;
Output = trialfunction(app.I_M,filter_size)
Output = app.ValueEditField; %Display function output in the box

Here's the code for my trialfunction:

function[S]=trialfunction(I_M,filter_size);
I_bin_regions = rangefilt(I_M,ones(filter_size,filter_size));
S=sum(I_bin_regions,'all')
end

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

William - I think that you have your assignment reversed. Instead of

Output = trialfunction(app.I_M,filter_size)
Output = app.ValueEditField; %Display function output in the box

where, in the second line, you assign the edit field to the already assigned Output, you need to assign it to the field as

Output = trialfunction(app.I_M,filter_size)
app.ValueEditField = Output;

I'm assuming that Output is the correct data type for this field. Because you are now using this variable, the warning "The Value assigned to the variable 'Output' might be unused should be eliminated.

As for the message "size inputs must be numeric", this is probably due to your edit field being a text field rather than numeric (see uieditfield for details). So either you can change this field to be numeric, or you can convert your string input to a number. See convert text to numeric values for details.

[William Pang]

Thanks Geoff for your answer. I've made the adjustments as you suggested, but I'm getting this error message:

At least I know that the 2D matrix is passing through my function which sums up the matrix and returning a value, i.e. 6.678919 e+06, but it can't display in the "Value" box.

I also tried adjusting the code with:

Output = trialfunction(app.I_M,filter_size)
app.ValueEditField.Value = Output;

and got this error message:

Any additional help will be much appreciated!!

[Geoff Hayes]

Hi William - that was my mistake, you would need to do

app.ValueEditField.Value = 'some string';

So you would need to convert your number to a string with num2str as

app.ValueEditField.Value = num2str(Output);

[William Pang]

Thanks Geoff! I figured that was the problem too. You've been very helpful!