How to add a property to the handles?

I'm creating GUI using guide. I added a new handles, but it does not contain any property (like struct). Please advice.

Answer 1

[Arthur]

So your code is:

handles.edit1 = 0;

This way you don't create an object, you simply add a field to the structure "handles", with value 0. I think you misunderstand the concept of handles. A handle is merely a number to refer to an object. The handle itself does not contain any properties. In addition, you can't add properties to an object: all properties are defined by the type of object.

Maybe you want to look at some of these examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_hmws6dwgg http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7598

Answer 2

[Luffy]

 Let me explain it for an edit box(assuming Tag is 1)
 x = get(handles.edit1,'String');
 set(handles.edit1,'String',z); 

 Now similarly use get & set to get & set properties via handles of Objects

Answer 3

[Michael Adelman]

If I understood correctly, 'String' is a property? if yes, then you explained how to set and get value of a string. I'm looking how to add 'String' (which is a property) to a handle that doesn't has any properties.

In other words: assume that I'm at the Demo_OpeningFcn (GUI) and I write a s follows:

handles.edit1 = 0;

. . .

how to handles.edit1 add a property?

Answer 4

[Michael Adelman]

So you saying that I need to create an object first and then assign it to handle?