Setting up multiple EDIT TEXT boxes in gui by a single command

Is there any "single command" to set multiple edit text boxes in matlab gui for example, we use four lines for setting four edit text z=44; 1. set(handles.edit1,'string',z); %pasting value of z to all edit texts 2. set(handles.edit2,'string',z); 3. set(handles.edit3,'string',z); 4. set(handles.edit4,'string',z);

but i need a single lined command to do the same to compact my code. the idea about new code is

set(handles.edit1,handles.edit2,handles.edit3,handles.edit4,'string',z);

Answer 1

[Jan]

set([handles.edit1,handles.edit2,handles.edit3,handles.edit4], 'string', z);

See: doc set in the first paragraph:

 set(H,Name,Value)  [...] If H is a vector of objects, then set
 sets the property for all the objects.

So all you need is to provide the handles as a vector of objects.

[Ameer Hamza]

Thanks alot. actually i had to set 100 edit text values to 'z'. It worked for me.

[Jan]

In a similar situation I define the handles.edit as a vector directly instead of using indices hidden in the fieldnames edit1, edit2, .... This is easy, if you do not work with GUIDE or if you create the edit fields dynamically in the CreateFcn. Then the code is much simpler:

set(handles.edit, 'string', z);