App Designer - Edit grayed out code

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Odilon Lemieux
Odilon Lemieux on 22 Jan 2019
Commented: Ajith Gunatilaka on 16 Sep 2021
Hi,
I need to edit the grayed out code in the code view of my MatLab app to write initialization code.
I am building a MatLab app frontend for a backend which already exists. This backend has an object-oriented design and needs to run initialization code to read data and populate the data storage objects. How can I call the initialization code in the constructor of the app, or somewhere at the begininning of the program, once?
Thanks for your help.

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B Verhaar
B Verhaar on 23 Mar 2021
I think this is what you need:
Startup Tasks and Input Arguments in App Designer
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Ajith Gunatilaka
Ajith Gunatilaka on 16 Sep 2021
Thank you. This helped me out.
I wanted to set the latex interpreter for Ylable before displaying a GUI with a graph. Unlike for edit box labels, I could not do this in the component browser. But now I was able to add it as a startup task.
Thanks for this useful tip.

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Luna
Luna on 22 Jan 2019
Edited: Luna on 22 Jan 2019
Copy the whole code app designer produced and past it another blank .m file and save it.
Then you can edit the properties, constructor method and run it easily.
Maybe there is another easy way to do it.
I generally prefer to code my own GUI instead of app designer.
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Tom Paraschuk
Tom Paraschuk on 24 Jan 2019
I have a workaround: the startup function for a MatLab app, described at https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_guis/app-designer-startup-function.html.
That being said, the app designer software's locking you out of editing the code in any way is a very bad feature.
Luna
Luna on 28 Jan 2019
Edited: Luna on 28 Jan 2019
I think you did different thing than what I said above. Create your application in appdesigner, put some buttons, gui elements, etc. Go to code view, and copy whole code.
Than open a new blank .m file on Matlab, past it to there and save new app.m. This must be a classdef file (an object definition with its methods and properties)
Now you can both edit and when you click run your app(GUI) will be executed.
Be careful about editing, if you are not familiar with object oriented programming.
Note: As I see you saved .mlapp file and this is not what I explained.

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Parisa Zomorodian
Parisa Zomorodian on 7 Dec 2020
Your solution didnt work for me as well.
You can click on the arrow under "save" button and choose "export to .m file...". You can edit the mfile afterward.
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Luna
Luna on 23 Mar 2021
Edited: Luna on 23 Mar 2021
What was the error? This method works perfectly in my computer.
You should know the structure of the code and which functions run first. As I said you should not be saving a mlapp file. You should save a .m file and you will run this .m file. If you have another depended .m files put them on the same folder and check where you call them in main .m file.

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