How do I change the handle name in guide?

Hi, I want to make a gui for my program using GUIDE. Guide gives generic handles to all pushbuttons, but I want to change these handle names. I can only find an option to change the tag in the inspector panel.

I have a callback that does something else depending on the handle name (e.g. if the button has handle move_fwd it moves something forward), thats why I would like to change the handle names.

How do I change the handle name using GUIDE?

Answer 1

[Adam]

The tag is what is referred to on the handles struct. If you change this in GUIDE it will automatically update all references to it in the associated .m file.

[fvanzwol]

The problem is that these functions have not yet been linked, so the automatic update won't happen. I have a file full of functions I already wrote and I want to link them to a gui.

[Adam]

You'll have to rename them yourself in that case to match the tag of the ui component. That is one of the downsides of Matlab as an interpreted language - when you want to rename something that is used in many places it is a tedious and potentially bug-ridden task!

[fvanzwol]

This is what I did. This could also be done using findobj to find the tag if you are lazy.