Loop through parents name

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a ui-generating function that is called several time instead of raw-coding every tab / button ... of every section of my interface.

To do it, I need to call this function for different tabs, ie different parents.

For example I have this kind of code :

obj.Display.Compare_Options = uicontrol(obj.Display.Panel_Perfo,'style','check','unit','normalized'); %shortened compared to real code            

Where

• obj.Display.PanelPerfo is a uitab
• obj.Display.Compare_Options is a struct

And I'd like to be able to refer to different ui tab, as if I had something like :

uitabname = Panel_Perfo

obj.Display.Compare_Options = uicontrol (obj.Display.uitabname,'style','check','unit','normalized')

But when I do this, I have the error "Reference to non-existent filed 'uitabname' because MATLAB is searching for

obj.Display.uitabname

Where I want it to search for

obj.Display.Panel_Perfo

In order to change tab name based on callback source.

How can I make this happen ? Thanks !

Answer 1

[Rik]

If you're using a struct, you need to do this:

uitabname = 'Panel_Perfo';
obj.Display.Compare_Options = uicontrol(obj.Display.(uitabname),...
    'Style','check',...
    'Unit','Normalized')

If obj.Display is an object, you probably need to use get.

[Alexis]

obj.Display.(uitabname) works exactly how I wanted !

Thanks a lot !

[Rik]

You're welcome. I prefer to use line continuations to break up long lines of code and easily spot which parameter has which value. You may want to consider a similar style.