set function doesn't work

Hello, Im using this code to get the pressed key of my keyboard, returning the value of the key in the variable h, but doesn't work, and occurs this error:

    %h=set(gcf,'keypressfcn','get(gcbf,''currentkey'')');

One or more output arguments not assigned during call to "set".

Error in Untitled3 (line 2) h=set(gcf,'keypressfcn','get(gcbf,''currentkey'')');

What is wrong with the code? Help me please

Answer 1

[Joseph Cheng]

What you can do is this.

hfig = figure;
% set(hfig,'KeyPressFcn',@(hobject,event) set(hobject,'UserData',event))
set(hfig,'KeyPressFcn',@(hobject,event) disp(event))
get(hfig,'UserData')

The commented out portion is what you'd do to save the event data. Choose which one you want to save. Say you just care about the character and not the key then you would set the hobject.Userdata with event.Character. The one i didn't comment out was to just show what data is available.

[francisco]

Thanks, but i don't understand what are you saying, my english is not very good.

I need to have the character in variable h for use it in other program,How can i do it? Its something like this

 function h = Untitled3
 hfig = figure;
 %set(hfig,'KeyPressFcn',@(hobject,event) set(hobject,'UserData',event))
 set(hfig,'KeyPressFcn',@(hobject,event) disp(event));
 get(hfig,'UserData');

 end

[Joseph Cheng]

Okay, I showed only an example since I do not know your implementation. So another very simple implementation, with a function created like below

   function h = Untitled
    h = figure;
    set(h,'KeyPressFcn',@(hobject,event) set(hobject,'UserData',event))
   end

where I run it with

 h = Untitled

i can retrieve the pressed key using

 get(h,'UserData')

from the command line. While the figure is active and you press any key go back to the command line and you'll see that the h has been updated with the new key pressed.

Answer 2

[dpb]

You've got a *set* instead of a *get*.  I don't know about the operation, per se, but use

h=get(gcf,'keypressfcn','get(gcbf,''currentkey'')');

as at least first shot...

[francisco]

Thank you, but doesn't work. Show this:

Error using get Too many input arguments.

Error in Untitled3 (line 2) h=get(gcf,'keypressfcn','get(gcbf,''currentkey'')');

Answer 3

[Image Analyst]

Where is that code? Is it in the keypress callback function? Are you using GUIDE, or struggling to wire it up on your own from scratch? In the callback function for keypress, can't you just do

theKey = get(gcf, 'currentKey');

or something like that? (I've never actually done it so I'm just guessing at the correct property to ask for.)