I recently took over a MATLAB project of a former colleague and is still learning how to write MATLAB code correctly. I would like to change working code that currently uses msgbox to now rather make use of uialert(). I can however not find a way to link the UIFigure of my app to the uialert function. My understanding is that the arguments should be as follows: uialert(uifigure,message,title). My problem seems to be with the uifigure argument.
The uialert Help indicates that the uifigure must be created with the uifigure function. When I use the following code I do get a new uifigure and the alert message appears in front of it as expected.
f = uifigure;
uialert(f,’Test’,’warning’);
I do however want the alert message to appear in front of the App Designer UIFigure rather than a newly created figure. I found code here on the forum that identifies the name of my App Designer figure:
hFigs = findall(groot, ‘Type’, ‘figure’)
hFigs = Figure (VTT) with properties:
Number: []
Name: ‘VTT’
I tried several ways to try to refer to the name of my App Designer figure but none of them worked. Below are two examples of what I tried.
uialert(‘VTT’,’Test’,’warning’);
uialert(hFigs.Name,’Test’,’warning’);
I got the following error with both lines of code:
Error using uialert (line 35)
Invalid or deleted figure handle. First argument must be a valid figure handle
I might be using the wrong terminology but I can not find any answers in this forum that explained to me how I can link uialert() to appear in front of the the App Designer UIFigure.I recently took over a MATLAB project of a former colleague and is still learning how to write MATLAB code correctly. I would like to change working code that currently uses msgbox to now rather make use of uialert(). I can however not find a way to link the UIFigure of my app to the uialert function. My understanding is that the arguments should be as follows: uialert(uifigure,message,title). My problem seems to be with the uifigure argument.
The uialert Help indicates that the uifigure must be created with the uifigure function. When I use the following code I do get a new uifigure and the alert message appears in front of it as expected.
f = uifigure;
uialert(f,’Test’,’warning’);
I do however want the alert message to appear in front of the App Designer UIFigure rather than a newly created figure. I found code here on the forum that identifies the name of my App Designer figure:
hFigs = findall(groot, ‘Type’, ‘figure’)
hFigs = Figure (VTT) with properties:
Number: []
Name: ‘VTT’
I tried several ways to try to refer to the name of my App Designer figure but none of them worked. Below are two examples of what I tried.
uialert(‘VTT’,’Test’,’warning’);
uialert(hFigs.Name,’Test’,’warning’);
I got the following error with both lines of code:
Error using uialert (line 35)
Invalid or deleted figure handle. First argument must be a valid figure handle
I might be using the wrong terminology but I can not find any answers in this forum that explained to me how I can link uialert() to appear in front of the the App Designer UIFigure. I recently took over a MATLAB project of a former colleague and is still learning how to write MATLAB code correctly. I would like to change working code that currently uses msgbox to now rather make use of uialert(). I can however not find a way to link the UIFigure of my app to the uialert function. My understanding is that the arguments should be as follows: uialert(uifigure,message,title). My problem seems to be with the uifigure argument.
The uialert Help indicates that the uifigure must be created with the uifigure function. When I use the following code I do get a new uifigure and the alert message appears in front of it as expected.
f = uifigure;
uialert(f,’Test’,’warning’);
I do however want the alert message to appear in front of the App Designer UIFigure rather than a newly created figure. I found code here on the forum that identifies the name of my App Designer figure:
hFigs = findall(groot, ‘Type’, ‘figure’)
hFigs = Figure (VTT) with properties:
Number: []
Name: ‘VTT’
I tried several ways to try to refer to the name of my App Designer figure but none of them worked. Below are two examples of what I tried.
uialert(‘VTT’,’Test’,’warning’);
uialert(hFigs.Name,’Test’,’warning’);
I got the following error with both lines of code:
Error using uialert (line 35)
Invalid or deleted figure handle. First argument must be a valid figure handle
I might be using the wrong terminology but I can not find any answers in this forum that explained to me how I can link uialert() to appear in front of the the App Designer UIFigure. uialert, app designer uifigure MATLAB Answers — New Questions

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