MATLAB: Create a second GUI when a pushbutton is pressed

Question

Hi,

I imagine this is fairly straight forward to do… I have created a set of edit boxes in a panel which need to be filled in and have a send button which triggers them to be sent over UDP to another program.

Now what I want to do is have everything within that panel be in a separate GUI window which pops up when a push button is clicked as it is not needed in the main GUI window the whole time.

How is this done?

Cheers,

Answer 1

Hey John,

just save your data you want to show in the second GUI in the handles, like

handles.mydata = mydata;

or with setappdata() to a GUI:

firstGUI = gcf;  
setappdata(firstGUI, 'mydata', mydata);

then start the second GUI with pushbutton_callback and handles.mydata as argument for the second GUI, or get the stored data with getappdata() in your second GUI:

mydata = getappdata(firstGUI, 'mydata');