findobj — find an object with specified property
h = findobj(propertyName, propertyValue)
string character Name of the property to test (case unsensitive).
string character specify the value the tested propoerty should be equal to (case sensitive).
handle of the found object.
This routine is currently used to find objects knowing their 'tag' property. It returns handle of the first found object which property propertyName is equal to propertyValue. If such an object does not exist, the function returns an empty matrix.
// Create a figure
h=figure();
// Put a text in the figure
uicontrol(h, "style","text", ...
"string","This is a figure", ...
"position",[50 70 100 100], ...
"fontsize",15, ...
"tag","Alabel");
// Find the object which "tag" value is "Alabel"
lab=findobj("tag","Alabel");
disp("The text of the label is """+lab.string+"""");
// Close the figure
close();