Doug's MATLAB Video Tutorials

May 29th, 2009

Building a GUI to read, modify and write an Excel file. 3/4

This is the third in a series of videos that will go through the process of planing and implementation of a simple GUI. Realistically, I would not plan out a GUI this simple, but the idea is to show what my planning process is on a simple example. The purpose of this GUI is to:

Select an Excel file and read it into the MATLAB workspace
Modify the data that came from the file. In this case by multiplying by a scalar
Write the modified data into an Excel file with a name derived from the original filename

The first video is all about the planning of the GUI.

The second video creates the low-level functions needed to implement the functionality

The third video creates a single MATLAB file that runs the low-level functions

The final video implements the simple GUI discussed here, calling the functions created above.

By Doug Hull

Doug first used MATLAB in 1994, could not figure it out until he got some help in 1995. He is now dedicated to making sure that no one else wastes a year of their life not knowing MATLAB like he did.

18:06 UTC | Posted in Format: Video, Level: Advanced, Topic: Excel, Topic: GUI or GUIDE | Permalink | 1 Comment »

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One Response to “Building a GUI to read, modify and write an Excel file. 3/4”

B Thomson replied on August 19th, 2012 at 21:24 UTC :

I think you mean “prefix”, not “prefex.” Of course, you are free to name variables any name you want, even misspelt ones.