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September 27th, 2007

MATLAB Basics video: UIGETFILE for selecting a file in a script, function or GUI

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This video covers how to use UIGETFILE to make it easier to select a file from a script, function or GUI.

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By Doug Hull

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4 Responses to “MATLAB Basics video: UIGETFILE for selecting a file in a script, function or GUI”

  1. Eli replied on June 4th, 2008 at 10:51 UTC :

    Say I use uigetfile to get a filename that is in a path not currently part of the matlab path. When I execute the next line of code (load(fileName)), the file will not be loaded since it is not in the current path. How can I go about adding the path (automatically/ without additional user input)?

    Cheers,
    Eli

  2. Bob replied on June 4th, 2008 at 20:29 UTC :

    Eli, does this help?

      [f,p] = uigetfile;
  load(fullfile(p,f))

    Cheers
    Bob

  3. Andreas Kaipanos replied on November 17th, 2010 at 12:37 UTC :

    i’m having a problem when using uigetfile in a gui i developed…i have created a pushbutton and in it i have writen:
    function pushbutton2_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
    % hObject handle to pushbutton2 (see GCBO)
    % eventdata reserved – to be defined in a future version of MATLAB
    % handles structure with handles and user data (see GUIDATA)
    data5=importdata(uigetfile(‘*’));
    dd=length(data5(:,1));

    and it just doesn’t work

  4. Doug replied on November 17th, 2010 at 14:11 UTC :

    @Andreas,

    What file are you selecting?

    If you uigetfile the name of the file directly does it work? What is the error message?

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