How to save & export .mlapp edit box results

Hey dear MATLABer

I've been practice using MATLAB .mlapp (under R2017b) to build a GUI with multilple edit box, and some action buttons (like 'ok', 'continue' and 'cancel')

Since this GUI will be called by other .m functions, and I need to save and export the user typed numbers inside the edit box. But I am not sure how shall these data's been export, I know the edit box values are can be found in app.Editlabel1.Value, but how shall I save and handle this data outside .mlapp? And I also want to extend .mlapp

I have read one related question (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/284140-call-an-mlapp-with-input-argument-s), but seems not helping with my case

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

There are a few ways to do it. Does this post or this post give you what you are looking for?

[Kat Lee]

It answered part of my question, but for "save" (or "OK") button, how shall I assign actions for that button.

EDIT: I have tried using the assignin('base', 'EditFiledName',mymlapp), but it didnt return any values

[Cris LaPierre]

Not sure what your variable name is. but I think you want to do something like this:

assignin('base', 'EditFiledName',app.EditField.Value)

I'm using r2018b, btw.

[Kat Lee]

shall this "assignin" command put as a callback or shall it's included when build that edit filed

[Cris LaPierre]

That is your call as the code designer. Put it in a callback that executes when you want to save the variables to the workspace. It will have to be in a callback, but you can decide where based on the behavior you want.

It would be natural to put it in the callback of a button that will save when pressed.

[Kat Lee]

thank you @Cris

at this point I think mlapp will be better to create a stand-alone GUI, but not really convenient to use as a addin GUI function. Because I found not only export data, but also hard to import data . I was trying to assign each edit box with some user predefined values, found it's pretty confusing to add.