editbox clear command

m working on application where i put a clear botton i want that whenver i click on it it would clear all the fields data so i used this code in pushbotton clear(edit3,edit4,text1); but its not working so how to do this would you please tell me........

Answer 1

[Jan]

"It is not working" does not contain enough details to find a valuable advice. Please post the code. The CLEAR command clears variables from the workspace, but not the contents of UICONTROLs. Perhaps you want to set the contents explcitly:

set([edit3, edit4, text1], 'String', '');

[emmi rdx]

yes i want to clear the text in these field for new values but its not working.........

[Walter Roberson]

What error do you get?

Jan's solution is correct, provided you pass in the correct handles.

However, there is a possibility that some part of your code might have been written to assume that one of those handles always returns a cell array of strings rather than a string; in such a case you could use {''} instead of '' but better in such a case would be to use cellstr(get(HANDLE, 'string')) instead of just get(HANDLE, 'string')

[Daniel Shub]

You also might need a drawnow.

[Image Analyst]

If she used GUIDE, you would have to do

set(handles.edit3, 'String', '');

because the tag (the name of the edit box control) is always preceded by handles.