setting handles for an array of pushbuttons (i.e. pushbutton(i))

i want to set handles for an array of pushbuttons starting from pushbutton1 to pushbutton10 (i.e. pushbutton(i)), is this possible in Matlab? for example a code look like

for i=1:10
set(handles.pushbuttton(i),'String','i')
end

thanks..

[Daniel Shub]

What happens when you run the code and what do you expect to get? You probably want to replace 'i' with num2str(i).

[kaan yilmaz]

This code doesn't work... briefly, i have 300 buttons in my GUI and i made this Gui by GUIDE, i need to save the states of these buttons(i.e.backgroundcolors), but i cannot do it each time like "state.pushbutton1=get(handles.pushbutton1,'Backgroundcolor'); " for 300 buttons, therefore i need to make an array for which i need to write "state.allpushbuttons=get(handles.allpushbuttons,'Backgroundcolor'); "

could i explain it clear enough?

[Jan]

Your code sets the string of the buttons to 'i'. Your comment means, that you want to get the BackgroundColor. Both are different problems.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

It doesn't work because handles.pushbutton(i) does not evaluate to handles.pushbutton1 (when i is one). To work around this with GUDIE you would either need to use dynamic field names (recommended) or eval

e.g.:

set(handles.(sprintf('pushbutton%d',1)),'String',num2str(i))

or

set(eval(eval('sprintf(''handles.pushbutton%d'',1)')),'String','i')

which is highly recommended against.

[kaan yilmaz]

woow, thank you, the thing i wanted to do is exactly similar to this, it would be great if these codes work, thk you so much..

Answer 2

[kaan yilmaz]

why does nobody answer this question? please help, i got stuck here :(

Answer 3

[Jan]

This will get the background color of all buttons as a cell:

state.allpushbuttonBG = get([handles.pushbutton],'Backgroundcolor');

and to set it later:

set([handles.pushbutton], 'Backgroundcolor', state.allpushbuttonBG);

I cannot try it currently, perhaps you need addition curly braces:

set([handles.pushbutton], {'Backgroundcolor'}, state.allpushbuttonBG);

[kaan yilmaz]

thnk you too, Mr. Simon, i will try this also, new ideas :)

[kaan yilmaz]

[handles.pushbutton] --> sadly, Matlab cannot understand handle of all pushbuttons in the figure by this command...