MATLAB: How to display data from editext in listbox in GUI

Question

Hi everyone!

My problem is:

I have a GUI contains a listbox and a edittext.

Listbox have a array of strings:

a      
an     
able   
back   
bath   
bench  
car    
create 
common 
claim
dad    
did    
dear   
eat    
edit   
english
enable 
far    
father 
fish   
jacket
jet
kiss
gather 
get    
gun  
...

and so on

Now, i want to import a word "jacket" (for example) on edittext. i expect when i import word "j" on edittext, the listbox will display all word that begin with word "j". Similarly, when i import consecutive word, "a", (now, i'm having "ja" on edittext). the listbox will display all word that contains words "ja". and so on

Thank you so much

Answer 1

the contains() function can help you out here, or if you want to get fancy, regexp()

Set your callback for the 'edit' box to retrieve the strings from the list box,

and do

contains(list_box_string,edit_box_string)

This will give you a logical array, simply use that array as indexing for the strings in the listbox.

Note: You may want to save the main list under a variable to be called when edit box is empty, so that you preserve it and it doesnt get lost when you change the string of the listbox.

Let me know if this helps or if you need more clarification.