How to initialize a variable in a GUI?

For a project I'm working on, I'm trying to initialize a variable to be zero, and I want that variable to be accessible no matter what button is pressed in the GUI. The variable will count up each time a button is pushed. ex. n=0; n=n+1; The n=n+1 would be on each button making it add up to display an image. Please help ASAP!!!!

Answer 1

[Sindhu Priya]

Hi Antonette,

Here is a way to do it using GUIDE.

Add the variable to 'handles' parameter of the 'OpeningFcn' of the GUIDE as shown below,

function Test_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin)
% This function has no output args, see OutputFcn.
% hObject    handle to figure
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
% varargin   command line arguments to Test (see VARARGIN)

% Choose default command line output for Test
handles.output = hObject;
handles.n=0;
% Update handles structure
guidata(hObject, handles);

And for the button callbacks add the code as follows and the following code increments and displays the value of 'n' in the command window when the button is clicked.

function pushbutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to pushbutton1 (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
handles.n=handles.n+1;
disp(handles.n);
guidata(hObject,handles)

function pushbutton2_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% hObject    handle to pushbutton1 (see GCBO)
% eventdata  reserved - to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
% handles    structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
handles.n=handles.n+1;
disp(handles.n);
guidata(hObject,handles)

Hope this helps you.

Regards,

Sindhu