Building a GUI from user input

Hellow everyone ! I am entirely new to MATLAB . i want to build a GUI like this

Row = [text box 1]
Column = [text box 2]
[button]

When i click the button , it shall create a (Row X Column ) size table and i will be able to extract the data from the table for further processing . I have no idea on this .Please help me . Thanks

Answer 1

[Zoltán Csáti]

function myGUI
S.f = figure;
S.row = uicontrol('Style','edit', 'Units','normalized', ...
    'Position',[0.4 0.6 0.1 0.1]);
S.column = uicontrol('Style', 'edit', 'Units','normalized', ...
    'Position',[0.6 0.6 0.1 0.1]);
S.btn = uicontrol('Style','push', 'String','Create table', ...
    'Units','normalized', 'Position',[0.5 0.5 0.1 0.1]);

set(S.btn, 'Callback',{@createtable,S});

      function createtable(varargin)
          rowSize = str2num(get(S.row, 'String'));
          colSize = str2num(get(S.column, 'String'));
          initdata = zeros(rowSize,colSize);
          S.table = uitable('Parent',S.f, 'Data', initdata, ...
              'Units','normalized', 'Position',[0.4 0.2 0.4 0.2], ...
              'ColumnEditable',logical(ones(1,colSize)));
      end

end

[pradeep kumar]

Thanks Zoltán Csáti . Your solution worked . Can you Please provide me some books or link (tutorial kindda ) , so that i can learn the basics of GUI in MATLAB .

[Zoltán Csáti]

The position of the objects can easily be modified, it is just a sketch. If you wan to export the table values after editing, you can do it by saving the data values that can be extracted from the 'Data' field of S.table.

[Zoltán Csáti]

I learnt from the MATLAB Documentation, asked questions here and I found the following contribution very helpful: 41 Complete GUI Examples. This book is also advantageous if you want to learn GUI-making. And most importantly, practise a lot!

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

For a simpler, more interactive way, use GUIDE, so you don't have to figure out dozens of input parameters for uicontrol(). See this tutorial http://blogs.mathworks.com/videos/category/gui-or-guide/