How to extract data from a figure which contains a uitable?

Hi I'd like to extract data from a saved .fig file which contains a uitable. And I want to load the data into a matrix, so that I can use it in another matlab function. How to do it? I tried the following code:

open('(2039,2,0,1).fig');   
%(2039,2,0,1).fig is the file to extract data from
x=get(gcf,'Children');
display(x);

And matlab gives me a number not in my figure.

So how to do it? Thanks a lot in advance!

Answer 1

[Matt Kindig]

The number that is given when you do get(gcf,'Children') is the handle to one of the child objects (presumably the uitable if that's the only object in the figure). You can check this by checking the 'type' property of x.

To get the data,

x = get(gcf,'Children');
if strcmpi( get(x,'type'), 'uitable'),  %x is uitable
   data =get(x,'Data');   %this is the uitable data
end

[Yunran Wei]

thanks!

[Matt Kindig]

Or for a situation where you have multiple objects (including a uitable):

x = findobj(gcf,'Type','uitable');
if ~isempty(x),
   data = get(x,'Data');
end