How can i get a popup from a push button?

How can i get another GUI to popup after i press a push button? So when i press the push button, a popup box will come up and the user can input things (numbers), which then will be fed into the main program. If this possible, does anyone know of any work arounds? Thanks

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

See inputdlg()

If you want to get fancier than that, you can create a figure (make its 'WindowStyle' to 'modal' if you want) and put whatever GUI elements you want in it.

Sometimes it is useful to create the input dialog ahead of time, and set its 'Visible' property to 'off'; then the callback for the pushbutton might be as simple as setting the figure to be visible.