How to insert data into a GUIDE GUI for a creation function.

I'm trying to add data into my GUI, and use some of that data to populate a listbox.I have a function, FileRead that ingests a certain file, and returns a table with 10 fields. I've called that function and added it to the handle structure as below:

% add the tables into the handles structure
handles.OrigTable = FileRead('ntap_data.ntap');
handles.filteredTable = handles.OrigTable;
guidata(hObject,handles)

and then I tried to use that data in the CreateFcn for the listbox here:

function squawks_CreateFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% Hint: listbox controls usually have a white background on Windows.
%       See ISPC and COMPUTER.
if ispc && isequal(get(hObject,'BackgroundColor'), get(0,'defaultUicontrolBackgroundColor'))
    set(hObject,'BackgroundColor','white');
end
squawks = categories(handles.OrigTable.Squawk);
set(handles.squawks,'String',squawks);

but it looks like the CreateFcn is running before ReadFile can finish ingesting the data and dropping it in handles.

How can I get it to pull this data?

Answer 1

[Kevin Chng]

Hi,

You may try this :

set(handles.OrigTable,'data',info)

I found there are two answers explaining well related to your questions:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/31633-tables-in-gui-guide

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/399058-how-to-resolve-the-dot-indexing-not-supported-for-this-type-of-variable-error

We may discuss further if you still encounter any problems.