Help me with this loop. contains handles structure

i have 16 objects, with tag 'box1,box2,box3.....' What i want is for the loop to access each of the objects and alter its property, either Color or any other property. how do i do this within a loop.

rcolour is just a custom function you can ignore it

for i=1:16 bcolour=rcolour() handles.box(i).BackgroundColor=bcolour; end

[Stephen23]

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/generate-field-names-from-variables.html

[Waboraro Olefile]

thanks

Answer 1

[Henry Giddens]

If you want to do it like this, you can access structure fields using strings by enclosing the string referring to the fieldname in brackets. For your case:

 for i = 1:16
   str = sprintf('box%d',i);
   handles.(str).BackgroundColor = bcolor; %
 end

[Waboraro Olefile]

Thanks... it worked

[Waboraro Olefile]

Is there any other way you would recommend me to do it though? thanks in advance... "if you want to do it like this"