How do I create an App Designer App that lists the contents of a user-chosen directory?

I would like to design an app that allows the user to browse for a folder, that displays the folder location, and that displays the folder contents to the app.  I would like to use App Designer to make the app.  How can I do this in App Designer?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

Refer to the attached example App Designer file named 'ExampleDirectoryApp.mlapp'.  In the attached example App, there is a 'browse' button, a label to display the selected folder location, and a uitable to display the contents of the selected folder location.  When the app is run, the user clicks on the 'browse' button to trigger a callback.  The callback executes the 'uigetdir' command to get the directory and then displays the directory to the label.  Finally, the callback obtains the directory contents using the 'dir' command and displays the contents in the uitable.

 

For more information and details about the implementation, refer to the attached file and the comments in the file.  Please note that, because the contents of the directory are displayed in a uitable, the contents are selectable.  That is, if desired, the 'CellSelectionCallback' can be created on the uitable to execute code based on the user's selection of the folder's contents.  Please also note that the app was designed to be run in MATLAB R2018a.

 

For more information about the relevant functions and callbacks in this example app, please refer to the following links:

 

'uigetdir': https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uigetdir.html

'dir': https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/dir.html

'uitable': https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/uitable.html

'CellSelectionCallback': https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matlab.ui.control.table.html

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[Jesus Sanchez]

Dear MatWorks Support Team,

I would like to see the code and comments to learn exactly how you did this app. However, I have Matlab R2017b. When I try to open the code, it tells me:

% This app was created in a newer version of App Designer 
% and cannot be opened for editing

Could you upload an earlier version of the app?

Kind regards

[Jesus Sanchez]

Nevermind, using uigetdir it is easy enough to not need further guidance.

Thanks for your time

[farzad]

Dear Jesus, shall you please put the code text ? to be usable for older versions ?