Save app designer UITree to .mat file?

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Rod Lopez
Rod Lopez am 18 Nov. 2021
Kommentiert: Rod Lopez am 22 Nov. 2021
I made an app using app designer, which includes a UI Tree component. Based on the node that the user selects in this tree, different sets of drop-downs and spinners will pop up nearby. Selections are then stored in a large non-scalar array. When the user clicks on "Save", my goal is to save this array and the current state of the UITree into a mat file, so it can be recalled, edited, re-saved etc.
I can easily store this list of parameters via save(), but doing the same thing for the app.Tree yields a 1x1 struct with all the expected attributes for a tree, but they are all empty.
What is the easiest method to store the structure of a UITree, so the user may load it back into the app?
Note: I am not able to share the code sadly, but can provide additional detail if needed.

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Alberto Cuadra Lara
Alberto Cuadra Lara am 18 Nov. 2021
Hello Rod, maybe this small app can help you. This code creates an GUI that contains initially a UITree component with different nodes, each of them creates a different set of components that will update the current state of the GUI. When you select a node from the UITree the code will figure out if there are previous items created by the UITree, in case there are items we have to delete them to not overlap with the new one that is going to be created.
Now, regarding your question I have added two buttons to save and load the current state of the GUI. With the load button we have first to call the routine to delete the existing items if needed, as before to not overlap, and then we have a loop to copy the loaded objects into the UIFigure.
classdef Example_UITree_exported < matlab.apps.AppBase
% Properties that correspond to app components
properties (Access = public)
UIFigure matlab.ui.Figure
LoadButton matlab.ui.control.Button
SaveButton matlab.ui.control.Button
Tree matlab.ui.container.Tree
MATLABexampleNode matlab.ui.container.TreeNode
DropdownNode matlab.ui.container.TreeNode
SliderNode matlab.ui.container.TreeNode
LampandLabelNode matlab.ui.container.TreeNode
end
properties (Access = private)
items_node % Items created with the UITree nodes selection
end
methods (Access = private)
function delete_items(app, items)
% Function that delete the existing items from a cell variable
if ~isempty(items)
for i=1:length(items)
delete(items{i});
end
end
end
end
% Callbacks that handle component events
methods (Access = private)
% Selection changed function: Tree
function TreeSelectionChanged(app, event)
selectedNodes = app.Tree.SelectedNodes;
delete_items(app, app.items_node);
app.items_node = [];
switch lower(selectedNodes.Text)
case 'drop down'
app.items_node{1,1} = uidropdown(app.UIFigure, 'Position', [350, 350, 100, 22]);
case 'slider'
app.items_node{1,1} = uislider(app.UIFigure, 'Position', [350, 350, 150, 3]);
case 'lamp and label'
app.items_node{1,1} = uilamp(app.UIFigure, 'Position', [350, 350, 20, 20]);
app.items_node{1,2} = uilabel(app.UIFigure, 'Position', [350, 300, 31, 22]);
end
end
% Button pushed function: SaveButton
function SaveButtonPushed(app, event)
% Function that save the current state of the GUI
items = app.items_node;
save items.mat items
end
% Button pushed function: LoadButton
function LoadButtonPushed(app, event)
% Function that load the saved state of the GUI
delete_items(app, app.items_node);
load items.mat items
app.items_node = [];
for i=length(items):-1:1
app.items_node{i} = copyobj(items{i}, app.UIFigure);
end
end
end
% Component initialization
methods (Access = private)
% Create UIFigure and components
function createComponents(app)
% Create UIFigure and hide until all components are created
app.UIFigure = uifigure('Visible', 'off');
app.UIFigure.Position = [100 100 640 480];
app.UIFigure.Name = 'MATLAB App';
% Create Tree
app.Tree = uitree(app.UIFigure);
app.Tree.SelectionChangedFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @TreeSelectionChanged, true);
app.Tree.Position = [60 121 150 300];
% Create MATLABexampleNode
app.MATLABexampleNode = uitreenode(app.Tree);
app.MATLABexampleNode.Text = 'MATLAB example';
% Create DropdownNode
app.DropdownNode = uitreenode(app.MATLABexampleNode);
app.DropdownNode.Text = 'Drop down';
% Create SliderNode
app.SliderNode = uitreenode(app.MATLABexampleNode);
app.SliderNode.Text = 'Slider';
% Create LampandLabelNode
app.LampandLabelNode = uitreenode(app.MATLABexampleNode);
app.LampandLabelNode.Text = 'Lamp and Label';
% Create SaveButton
app.SaveButton = uibutton(app.UIFigure, 'push');
app.SaveButton.ButtonPushedFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @SaveButtonPushed, true);
app.SaveButton.Position = [394 121 81 22];
app.SaveButton.Text = 'Save';
% Create LoadButton
app.LoadButton = uibutton(app.UIFigure, 'push');
app.LoadButton.ButtonPushedFcn = createCallbackFcn(app, @LoadButtonPushed, true);
app.LoadButton.Position = [495 121 81 22];
app.LoadButton.Text = 'Load';
% Show the figure after all components are created
app.UIFigure.Visible = 'on';
end
end
% App creation and deletion
methods (Access = public)
% Construct app
function app = Example_UITree_exported
% Create UIFigure and components
createComponents(app)
% Register the app with App Designer
registerApp(app, app.UIFigure)
if nargout == 0
clear app
end
end
% Code that executes before app deletion
function delete(app)
% Delete UIFigure when app is deleted
delete(app.UIFigure)
end
end
end
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Rod Lopez
Rod Lopez am 22 Nov. 2021
Thank you for such a detailed answer Alberto. I gave this a try and I believe this is really close to what I need, but the main thing that I am missing in my code is how to save the tree itself.
Each parent node in my app.Tree has two children. Clicking on the first child shows you a dropdown, and based on that dropdown selection will update the text and node_data for that tree child. It will also reveal new dropdowns / spinners to choose from. The user can create additional parent nodes, under which 2 default children are created automatically. The selections made for each parent node are kept in a non-scalar array.
Using your code I was able to save off this non-scalar array, but I have not had luck storing the app.Tree that goes with it. By interpretting the parameters stored in the array I could re-create the tree (the size tells me how many parent nodes to make, dropdown selections tell me what the first and second children's text is, etc.), but I was hoping I could just 'save' app.Tree in some manner and recall it like the non-scalar array.
Thank you for all of your help!!
Rod

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