display value in message box

hi, please help.

i create a multiple choice box and then display value of a in a message box but i don't know how to put the value of 'a' in the message box.

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choice = menu('Choose optical fiber type','Single-mode fiber ( G.652 )','Dispersion-shifted fiber ( G.653 )','Non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber ( G.655 )');
if choice==1
    a=1;
elseif choice==2
    a=2;
else
    a=3;
end
h = msgbox(Message)

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Is this:

h = msgbox(sprintf('You chose %d',a))

something like what you want to do?

[son]

hi, i use sprintf code but now it can't display the special symbol alpha

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%%Insert value in Matlab
dlg_title = 'Insert Factor Value';
x1 = inputdlg('Enter number of channels:',dlg_title, [1 50]);
n = str2num(x1{:});
x2 = inputdlg('Enter input power for each channel (mW):',dlg_title, [1 50]);
p = str2num(x2{:})*10^-3;
x3 = inputdlg('Enter channel spacing (nm):',dlg_title, [1 50]);
delta_lambda = str2num(x3{:})*10^-9;

CreateStruct.Interpreter = 'tex';
CreateStruct.WindowStyle = 'modal';
choice = menu('Choose optical fiber type','Single-mode fiber ( G.652 )','Dispersion-shifted fiber ( G.653 )','Non-zero dispersion-shifted fiber ( G.655 )');
if choice==1
    alphadb = 0.20;
    dispersion=16;
    slope=0.080;
    A=80;
elseif choice==2
    alphadb = 0.22;
    dispersion=0;
    slope=0.075;
    A=50;
else
    alphadb = 0.23;
    dispersion=3;
    slope=0.050;
    A=72;   
end
h = msgbox({sprintf('Fibre attenuation: \alpha = %g (dB/km)',alphadb)
             'Derivative dispersion coefficient: s = dD/d\lambda = 0.075 (ps/nm^2.km)' },'Standard Values',CreateStruct);

[Star Strider]

In sprintf, single ‘\’ are control characters for it and will throw an error if sprintf doesn’t recognise a valid control sequence, so to get it to print a ‘\’ that the TeX interpreter will see and interpret requires a double ‘\\’.

This worked for me, displaying both alpha and lambda as special characters:

h = msgbox({sprintf('Fibre attenuation: \\alpha = %g (dB/km)',alphadb)
             'Derivative dispersion coefficient: s = dD/d\lambda = 0.075 (ps/nm^2.km)' },'Standard Values',CreateStruct);

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

son, you don't need to get the handle from the message box if you don't ever use it. And you might want to use uiwait() and make it modal, rather than the way you and the others did it, so that it waits for the user to click OK before blasting onwards, executing subsequent code before the users have even had a chance to click OK yet.

message = sprintf('You clicked on button #%d,\nwhich set a = %f', choice, a);
uiwait(msgbox(message, 'modal'));

Alternatively you can use helpdlg() instead of msgbox() if you want an "text balloon" displayed or warndlg() if you want an exclamation point displayed.

uiwait(helpdlg(message)); % Has text balloon
uiwait(warndlg(message)); % Has exclamation symbol

Hope this helps. Vote for my answer if it was helpful additional information.

Answer 3

[Ben11]

You can use sprintf to format the message:

Message = sprintf('The value selected is %d\n',a);
h = msgbox(Message)

Answer 4

[son]

woa, so easy, many thanks

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!

[Eduardo Rey]

How do I display a list of values in a message box? For example, I have 10 variables:

var1 = 10e-3

var2 = 12e-3

...and so on. Basically what I want it to look like is:

var1 name: 10e-3

var2 name: 12e-3

[Victoria Viridiana Cabrera Díaz]

Eduardo Rey, hope this helps

uiwait stops your code from keeping on running until you click 'ok' in the message box

uiwait(msgbox(sprintf('var1 name: %2.3g \n var2name: %2.3g',var1,var2)));

[Image Analyst]

If you don't know how many there will be, you might want to display them all in a scrollable listbox. For example, if there were thousands of numbers you wouldn't want a msgbox.

r = rand(100, 1); % Your list of numbers.
list = num2str(r) % Turn into strings.
% Now display all the numbers in a scrollable listbox.
[indx,tf] = listdlg('ListString',list)