popup menu string in matlab gui?

[Martin Tegg]

I am having trouble creating a Matlab Gui. I have created the gui
using GUIDE, and now I would like to populate a pop-up menu with an
array (A list of dates) from a seperate m-file. Using GUIDE, I have
created the pop-up menu, and have edited the string so that it is
blank. However, I am confused as to how to write the m-file code so
that the pop-up menu is populated with the dates. Can anyone help?

[Madincea Vasile]

To select an item from the popup menu use:

val = get(handlePOPUPMENU,'Value');
string_list = get(Scenario_Lister,'String');
selected_string = string_list{val};

SelectedItem = val;

To populate the popup menu use:

string_list{1} = date1;
string_list{2} = date2;
...etc...
set(handlePOPUPMENU,'String',string_list);

Hope it helps...

Vasi

[Martin Tegg]

Thanks for this. Can you tell me where to put the code? GUIDE has
automatically created two functions in the m-file. The first is
function POPUPMENU_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)

The second is:
function POPUPMENU_CreateFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)

Do I put the populating code under the first one or the second one,
or somewhere else entirely?

[Madincea Vasile]

normally, as long as you have the handle, you can do this anywhere,
but it is better to put it in the createFcn.
Good luck !!!

[Martin Tegg]

Thanks its working now. The trick was to get the string as a cell
array, not a double matrix