How to edit text box

I have a edit box and a push button I want to make the push button do whatever I put in the edit box but I dont know how to do this

[Chandler Hall]

Are you sure drop-down box is not more appropriate? What sort of strings do you expect the user to input and how do you want that to correlate with the outcome?

[Amanda]

Im trying to use it for a robot maze I want the person to put in a number that correlates to steps for the robot and when they hit the push button the robot takes that about of steps.

Answer 1

[Chandler Hall]

fig = uifigure;
edit = uieditfield(fig, 'numeric');
btn = uibutton(fig, 'position', [200 100 100 22]);
label = uilabel(fig, 'position', [350 100 100 22]);

btn.ButtonPushedFcn = {@button_pushed, edit, label};

function button_pushed(obj, event, edit, label)
    use_value(edit.Value, label);
end

function use_value(user_in, label)
    label.Text = string(user_in);
end

See this article for a description about the unused arguments in button_pushed.