Generate edit text boxes by providing their numbers in GUI

I want to generate n number of edit text boxes by providing n as input in GUI. Is it possible?

For example,

User first provide value of n. Let it be 5

Then 5 edit boxes will be generated and then user provide values in them.

[Rik]

This is fairly easy with a programmatic GUI, as you can create the uicontrol objects in a loop and determine the Position based on the number of inputs.

Answer 1

[Kanishk]

Following Rik's comment, here is a simple function using loops to generate edit field.

function generateDynamicEditFields()
    fig = uifigure('Name', 'Dynamic Edit Fields');
    numField = uieditfield(fig, 'numeric', 'Position', [180 250 100 22]);
    
    generateButton = uibutton(fig, 'push', 'Text', 'Generate', ...
        'Position', [300 250 70 22], ...
        'ButtonPushedFcn', @(btn, event) generateEditFields(fig, numField.Value));
end
function generateEditFields(parentFig, n)
    delete(findall(parentFig, 'Type', 'uieditfield'));
    
    for i = 1:n
        uieditfield(parentFig, 'text', ...
            'Position', [20, 250 - i*30, 350, 22]);
    end
end

To add, you can use 'delete' and 'findall' to remove previously generated Edit fields.

delete(findall(parentFig, 'Type', 'uieditfield'));

Executing the 'generateDynamicEditFields' generates the follwing figure.

generateDynamicEditFields

You can learn more about 'uieditfield', 'delete' and 'findall' from the following commands.

web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/ref/uieditfield.html'))
web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/ref/delete.html'))
web(fullfile(docroot, 'matlab/ref/findall.html'))

Hope that helps!