MATLAB: App Designer ListBox.Value working strangely

appdesigner listbox.valueMATLAB

Hi all!
I encountered the following problem: I tried to import file names from 2 different folders to 2 listboxes. Until this the code works. But then I tried to add the selected items from the respective lists to another 2 lists. So until this the code should be totally the same.
But in one version the ListBox.Value is a string and in the other is a cell array, and I haven't been able to find the cause.
Does anybody have an explanation for this phenomenon or it is just a bug?
The code:
if true
  % code
end
searchpath = (['\\xxx\yyy\zzz\' app.TabSelect]) 
listmeasdata = dir(searchpath)
         dirFlags = [listmeasdata.isdir]
         files = {listmeasdata(~dirFlags).name}
 if app.TabGroup.SelectedTab == app.xTab
                 app.xListListBox.Items = files
             else app.TabGroup.SelectedTab == app.yTab
                 app.yListListBox.Items = files
end
 function TabGroupSelectionChanged(app, event)
             if app.TabGroup.SelectedTab == app.xTab
                 app.TabSelect = 'x'
             end
             if app.TabGroup.SelectedTab == app.yTab
                 app.TabSelect = 'y'
% Button pushed function: xAddtoselectionButton
      function xAddtoselectionButtonPushed(app, event)
          lastelement = numel(app.xSelectedListBox.Items)
          app.xSelectedListBox.Items(lastelement+1) = {app.xListListBox.Value}
 % Button pushed function: yAddtoselectionButton
        function yAddtoselectionButtonPushed(app, event)
            lastelement = numel(app.ySelectedListBox.Items)
            app.ySelectedListBox.Items(lastelement+1) = app.yListListBox.Value
You can see my problem in the first and fifth row from the bottom. Neither
  • app.xSelectedListBox.Items(lastelement+1) = app.xListListBox.Valueor
  • app.ySelectedListBox.Items(lastelement+1) = {app.yListListBox.Value}works

Best Answer

The second case should work.
app.ySelectedListBox.Items(lastelement+1) = {app.yListListBox.Value}
To test, I made a simple app with 4 listboxes and 2 buttons. Button2 selects the files and adds them to all listboxes. Button3 adds the selected items from box 1 and 2 and adds them to the bottoms of boxes 3 and 4. It worked.
% Button pushed function: Button2
function Button2Pushed(app, event)
   files = uigetfile('MultiSelect','on');
   app.ListBox.Items = files;
   app.ListBox2.Items = files;
   app.ListBox3.Items = files;
   app.ListBox4.Items = files;
end
% Button pushed function: Button3
function Button3Pushed(app, event)
   l = numel(app.ListBox3.Items)
   app.ListBox3.Items(l+1) = {app.ListBox.Value};
   app.ListBox4.Items(l+1) = {app.ListBox2.Value};
end
One thing to be aware of in this simplified example. You must select at least 2 files since uigetfile returns a char array if one file is selected and a cell array if more than one are selected.
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