Function control with reference to GUI

Hé Matlabbers,

I was struggling in Matlab and still can't solve this problem.

I have a M-File where I create this to uicontrols in a GUI.

 edXi = uicontrol(ph,'Style','edit',...
                    'String','0',...
                    'Position',[200 52 100 20]);

 edYi = uicontrol(ph,'Style','edit',...
                    'String','0',...
                    'Position',[150 52 100 20]);

 pbLock = uicontrol(ph,'Style','togglebutton','String','Lock',...
                    'Units','normalized','Callback',@lock_call,...
                    'Position',[.1 .80 .4 .15]);

When someone press the togglebutton, the function below (written in a different m file) has to be executed. Only how do I give the reference of the 'edit' uicontrol to the function to change the string in the 'Edits' within the function?

function lock_call(hObject,eventdata)

set(edXi,'String',num2str(pos(1)));
set(edYi,'String',num2str(pos(2)));

end

Answer 1

[Michael ten Den]

While writing and posting my Question some new keywords came in my head and I found my answer in a similar question.

Answer of similar question is below.

Hi,

add the handle from the uicontrol to the handles structure:

handles.edit = zeros(1, 10);
handles.edit(i) = uicontrol('style', 'edit', ...);
guidata(hObject, handles)

in the save callback you collect the entries:

entries = cell(1, 10);
for i=1:10
  entries{i} = get(handles.edit(i), 'string');
end

Titus

http://www.mathworks.nl/matlabcentral/answers/36268-dynamically-add-edit-boxes-using-uicontrol-and-how-to-get-the-reference