How to get parent name of a child GUI component?

Hi everybody,

I have a figure with 'Name' property: 'My figure' and 'Tag' property: 'figure1'.

In this figure, I have a push button with 'Name' property: 'Push me' and 'Tag' property: 'pushbutton1'

How can I get the push button's parent name in a programmatic GUI?

Is its parent name 'Myfigure' or 'figure1'?

   % Code generated by FIG2M made by Thomas Montagnon (The MathWorks France)
   % Great thanks to him
          % --- FIGURE -------------------------------------

          handles.figure1 = figure( ...
            'Tag', 'figure1', ...
            'Units', 'characters', ...
            'Position', [102.8 24.3076923076923 114 32.9230769230769], ...
            'Name', 'figure1', ...
            'MenuBar', 'none', ...
            'NumberTitle', 'off', ...
            'Color', [0.941 0.941 0.941]);

          % --- PUSHBUTTONS -------------------------------------
          handles.pushbutton6 = uicontrol( ...
            'Parent', handles.figure1, ...
            'Tag', 'pushbutton6', ...
            'Style', 'pushbutton', ...
            'Units', 'characters', ...
            'Position', [13.4 22.9230769230769 24.4 1.92307692307692], ...
            'String', 'Push Button');
              a=get(handles.pushbutton6,'parent') % a is a double, I don't know how to get parent name from it.

Answer 1

[Orion]

Hi,

Actually, more than a double, a is a handle. (try ishandle(a))

In your case, with

a=get(handles.pushbutton6,'parent')

a is the handle of the parent of handles.pushbutton6, which here is the figure.

And to get the name of this (which usually is different of the tag) :

get(a,'Name')

ans =

figure1

[Khanh]

Great. Thank you so much.