{"id":369,"date":"2009-05-15T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/05\/15\/building-a-gui-to-read-modify-and-write-an-excel-file-14\/"},"modified":"2010-10-13T20:16:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T20:16:40","slug":"building-a-gui-to-read-modify-and-write-an-excel-file-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/05\/15\/building-a-gui-to-read-modify-and-write-an-excel-file-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a GUI to read, modify and write an Excel file. 1\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"This is the first 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:\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>Select an Excel file and read it into the MATLAB workspace<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Modify the data that came from the file.  In this case by multiplying by a scalar<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Write the modified data into an Excel file with a name derived from the original filename<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<strong>The first video is all about the planning of the GUI.<\/strong>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/05\/22\/building-a-gui-to-read-modify-and-write-an-excel-file-24\/\">The second video creates the low-level functions needed to implement the functionality<\/a>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/05\/29\/building-a-gui-to-read-modify-and-write-an-excel-file-34\/\">The third video creates a single m-file that runs the low-level functions<\/a>\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/06\/05\/building-a-gui-to-read-modify-and-write-an-excel-file-44\/\">The final video implements the simple GUI discussed here, calling the functions created above.<\/a>\r\n\r\n<div><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"3877437993001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail thumbnail_asset asset_overlay video\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/05\/15\/building-a-gui-to-read-modify-and-write-an-excel-file-14\/?dir=autoplay\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/62009828001\/d88471d0-c416-4018-9538-73176c64d6b8\/b031a2ce-32e5-47b7-8b6e-5cd7a97c2f61\/160x90\/match\/image.jpg\" onError=\"this.style.display ='none';\"\/>\n      <div class=\"overlay_container\">\n      <span class=\"icon-video icon_color_null\"><time class=\"video_length\">3:11<\/time><\/span>\n      <\/div>\n      <\/a><\/div><p>This is the first 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&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2009\/05\/15\/building-a-gui-to-read-modify-and-write-an-excel-file-14\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17,7,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}