MATLAB GUI Radiobutton Control

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Oguzhan Kirtas
Oguzhan Kirtas on 20 Mar 2019
Edited: Luna on 21 Mar 2019
I'm writing a MATLAB GUI code that includes radiobuttons and corresponding edit boxes. To explain my problem better, I created a basic GUI as in the figure. If I first enter a value to the edit box and select the corresponding radiobutton, I obtain the result. However, I want to select the radiobutton first, then I will enter a value to the edit box. I tried several ways including while loops until the condition is met "while ~isa(handles.edit1,'double') end" and waitfor function but I could not solve the problem. I am adding the relevant parts of the code as well.
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function radiobutton_OpeningFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles, varargin)
handles.output = hObject;
set(handles.radiobutton1,'Value',0);
set(handles.radiobutton2,'Value',0);
guidata(hObject, handles);
function varargout = radiobutton_OutputFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
varargout{1} = handles.output;
% --- Executes on button press in radiobutton1.
function radiobutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
if get(hObject,'Value')==get(hObject,'Max')
res=3*handles.edit1;
set(handles.res,'String',res);
guidata(hObject, handles);
end
% --- Executes on button press in radiobutton2.
function radiobutton2_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
if get(hObject,'Value')==get(hObject,'Max')
res=3*handles.edit2;
set(handles.res,'String',res);
guidata(hObject, handles);
end
function edit1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
handles.edit1=str2double(get(hObject,'String'));
guidata(hObject, handles);
function edit1_CreateFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
if ispc && isequal(get(hObject,'BackgroundColor'), get(0,'defaultUicontrolBackgroundColor'))
set(hObject,'BackgroundColor','white');
end
function edit2_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
handles.edit2=str2double(get(hObject,'String'));
guidata(hObject, handles);
function edit2_CreateFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
if ispc && isequal(get(hObject,'BackgroundColor'), get(0,'defaultUicontrolBackgroundColor'))
set(hObject,'BackgroundColor','white');
end
function uibuttongroup1_SelectionChangedFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
function res_CreateFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
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Oguzhan Kirtas
Oguzhan Kirtas on 21 Mar 2019
I am writing a code for the performance calculations of vehicles. Other than many parameters, I use two radiobutton groups: First one is the weight on drive wheels as kg or weight percent. Second one is the tire radius or revolutions per km. User selects one option in each radiobutton group. Weight on drive wheels, tire radius and tire revolutions are used in performance calculations. It's true that the code I shared looks meaningless, I just shared it in order to explain the problem that I encountered better.
I am new to GUIDE and your comments helped me greatly to solve the issue. I simply defined the state of radiobuttons in radiobutton callbacks (1 or 0) and moved the calculations to edit field callbacks. It works for my main code as well.
Jan
Jan on 21 Mar 2019
The explanation of the meaning of the GUI elements is not useful. Better explain what should happen, when you select a radiobutton or enter a value in the edit field. I still do not know, which behavior you want.
By the way,
if get(hObject,'Value')==get(hObject,'Max')
can be simplified for radiobuttons, which have the value 0 or 1 by definition. Then this is sufficient already:
if get(hObject,'Value')
Because 0 is treated as FALSE and 1 as TRUE.
I'm happy if your problem is solved.

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Luna
Luna on 21 Mar 2019
Edited: Luna on 21 Mar 2019
Hi Oğuzhan,
You can just simply do this:
When option1 selected, enable edit1 and disable edit2. (radiobutton1 callback)
set(editbox1handle,'Enable','on');
set(editbox2handle,'Enable','off');
When option2 selected, enable edit2 and disable edit1. (radiobutton2 callback)
set(editbox1handle,'Enable','off');
set(editbox2handle,'Enable','on');
Implement these into your radiobutton callbacks seperately. So that user never can edit the other option's editbox and code never executes the unrelevant editbox' callback because you will be sure that it won't be changed when it is disabled.
You should only use radiobutton callbacks to control the behaviour of your GUI, not impelement any mathematical calculations or never get any editbox value in your radiobutton callbacks.
Implement your mathematical calculations in your editbox callbacks. So whenever related one edited by user, you get the mathematical operations.
Just for an example. Read my comments and you will get the idea.
function radiobutton1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
set(handles.edit1,'Enable','on');
set(handles.edit2,'Enable','off');
% --- Executes on button press in radiobutton2.
function radiobutton2_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
set(handles.edit1,'Enable','off');
set(handles.edit2,'Enable','on');
function edit1_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
% handles.edit1=str2double(get(hObject,'String'));
% you can only check if is empty then convert it to double
% do the same thing in your edit2_callback
if ~isempty(handles.edit1.String)
handles.edit1=str2double(get(hObject,'String'));
res=3*handles.edit1;
handles.res = res; % you can reach handles any callback when you want to get res.
end
%% I don't know why you check this max??
% if get(hObject,'Value')==get(hObject,'Max')
% res=3*handles.edit1;
% set(handles.res,'String',res);
% guidata(hObject, handles);
% end
% guidata(hObject, handles);
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Jan
Jan on 21 Mar 2019
handles.edit1 is usually the habndle of the "edit1" field. Then it is not useful to test, if it is empty or to overwrite it with the value of the edit field.
Luna
Luna on 21 Mar 2019
Ups! sorry! You are right Jan It will be:
if ~isempty(handles.edit1.String)
.
.
.
end
I just wrote it to not allow the user put empty string in that editbox for further calculations. It can also be written in a try catch block ofc.
Thanks for warning!

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