function UserResponse = TwoStateQuery(TheQuestion,TheChoices) % Syntax: UserResponse = TwoStateQuery(TheQuestion,[TheChoices]) % % Purpose: Create simple dialog box asking user an either/or question. % On non-GUI setups it will ask a question in the command window instead % of showing a GUI dialog box. % % History: 5/5/04 mpr decided whether or not to celebrate cinco de mayo % 10/13/04 mpr set Yes Button automatically to be enlarged for large % strings % 1/21/05 mpr allowed fontsize to shrink for longer questions % 1/27/05 mpr allowed question to break at file separator instead of % just spaces % 6/30/05 mpr orced underscores to remain as underscores instead of % indicating subscript % 3/27/06 mpr changed returned value to -1 when user deletes window; % note that this is dangerous because how a closed % window affects subsequent program behavior is not % implemented the same way in all code calling this % function... % 5/3/06 mpr set menubar to none for Version 2006a % 8/25/06 mpr resized No Button as needed; could be done better, but % the plan is to keep the 'Yes' and 'No' strings short % so that the code doesn't need to be pushed hard % 9/29/06 mpr repainted buttons in version 7 % 1/14/07 mpr undid previoius fix because button color bug is almost % fixed % 5/20/13 mk Add text only fallback for Octave and non-GUI. % 11/05/15 mk Add GUI dialog for Octave in GUI mode. White-space cleanup. % 7/20/17 mk Use text only fallback on Matlab R2014b and later. % 7/11/19 dn GUI version now works on Matlab R2014b and later. % 8/28/20 mk Always use questdlg() instead of Matlab specific % figure contraption. Nicer look. if nargin < 2 || isempty(TheChoices) TheChoices{1} = 'Yes'; TheChoices{2} = 'No'; elseif length(TheChoices) ~= 2 || ~iscell(TheChoices) warning('I don''t like the choices I received. Am substituting unadulterated originals.'); disp('But for kicks, this is what I was passed:'); TheChoices TheChoices{1} = 'Yes'; TheChoices{2} = 'No'; end UnderScoreSpots = find(TheQuestion == '_'); for k=length(UnderScoreSpots):-1:1 TheQuestion = [TheQuestion(1:(UnderScoreSpots(k)-1)) '\' TheQuestion(UnderScoreSpots(k):end)]; end % Provide text fallback for non-GUI mode: if ~IsGUI fprintf('%s\n', TheQuestion); fprintf('0 = %s\n', TheChoices{2}); fprintf('1 = %s\n', TheChoices{1}); answer = input('Choose your answer: ','s'); if isempty(answer) || (answer~='0' && answer~='1') UserResponse = -1; else UserResponse = sscanf(answer, '%i'); end return; end % questdlg builtin dialog box for Octave with GUI: % MK: Always use this one, even on Matlab. I can not see the advantage of % the Matlab specific contraption below? It seems to provide the same % functionality, but with way more ugly formatting? if IsOctave || 1 button = questdlg(TheQuestion, 'Question', TheChoices{1}, TheChoices{2}, 'Cancel', 'Cancel'); if ~isempty(strfind(button, TheChoices{1})) UserResponse = 1; elseif ~isempty(strfind(button, TheChoices{2})) UserResponse = 0; else UserResponse = -1; end return; end % NOT reached in current implementation! FigPos = [300 600]; FigWidth = 500; FigHeight = 200; YesBPos = [125 30]; YesBWidth = 80; YesBHeight = 50; NoBPos = [295 30]; PrimeFontSize = 36; QueryFigh = figure('Position',[FigPos FigWidth FigHeight],'Resize','off','NumberTitle','off', ... 'Name','Cross the Rubicon','MenuBar','none','Color','k'); QueryFighNr = QueryFigh; if ~isnumeric(QueryFighNr) QueryFighNr = QueryFigh.Number; end set(QueryFigh,'Tag',['Questionable Figure ' int2str(QueryFighNr)]); axes('Position',[0 0 1 1],'XLim',[0 FigWidth],'YLim',[0 FigHeight],'XColor','k','YColor','k'); th=text(FigWidth/2,0.65*FigHeight,TheQuestion,'FontSize',36,'Color',get_color('hot pink'), ... 'HorizontalAlignment','Center'); TextExt = get(th,'Extent'); if TextExt(1) < 0 SpaceLocs = find(TheQuestion == 32 | TheQuestion == abs(filesep)); [MinDist, MinInd] = min(abs(floor(length(TheQuestion)/2)-SpaceLocs)); if TheQuestion(SpaceLocs(MinInd)) == abs(filesep) set(th,'String',sprintf('%s\n%s',TheQuestion(1:SpaceLocs(MinInd)),TheQuestion((SpaceLocs(MinInd)+1):end))); else set(th,'String',sprintf('%s\n%s',TheQuestion(1:(SpaceLocs(MinInd)-1)),TheQuestion((SpaceLocs(MinInd)+1):end))); end while TextExt(1) < 0 && get(th,'FontSize') > 8 set(th,'FontSize',get(th,'FontSize')-1); TextExt = get(th,'Extent'); % I should create an error if font size does get down to 8, but I don't expect it ever to happen, so I'm not % going to deal with it. end end YesBh = uicontrol('Style','PushButton','Position',[YesBPos YesBWidth YesBHeight],'String',TheChoices{1}, ... 'ForeGroundColor',get_color('midnight blue'),'BackgroundColor', ... get_color('wheat'),'FontSize',36,'Tag','YesButton','UserData',-1); set(YesBh,'CallBack',['set(findobj(' int2str(QueryFighNr) ',''Tag'',''YesButton''),''UserData'',1);']); NoBWidth = YesBWidth; NoBHeight = YesBHeight; NoBh = uicontrol('Style','PushButton','Position',[NoBPos YesBWidth YesBHeight],'String',TheChoices{2}, ... 'ForeGroundColor',get_color('midnight blue'),'BackgroundColor', ... get_color('wheat'),'FontSize',36,'CallBack', ... ['set(findobj(' int2str(QueryFighNr) ',''Tag'',''YesButton''),''UserData'',0);']); YesBSSize = get(YesBh,'Extent'); while YesBSSize(3) > YesBWidth if YesBPos(1)+YesBWidth > NoBPos(1) - YesBWidth/2 set(YesBh,'FontSize',get(YesBh,'FontSize')-12); if ~get(uih,'FontSize') error('Yes string is too big!'); end else YesBPos(1) = YesBPos(1) - (YesBSSize(3)-YesBWidth)/2; YesBWidth = 1.1*YesBSSize(3); set(YesBh,'Position',[YesBPos YesBWidth YesBHeight]); end YesBSSize = get(YesBh,'Extent'); end NoBSSize = get(NoBh,'Extent'); while NoBSSize(3) > NoBWidth if NoBWidth < YesBWidth NoBWidth = YesBWidth; set(NoBh,'Position',[NoBPos NoBWidth NoBHeight]); elseif NoBPos(1)+NoBWidth < 0.9*FigWidth NoBWidth = NoBWidth*1.1; set(NoBh,'Position',[NoBPos NoBWidth NoBHeight]); else set(NoBh,'FontSize',get(NoBh,'FontSize')-12); if ~get(NoBh,'FontSize') error('No string is too big!'); end end NoBSSize = get(NoBh,'Extent'); end drawnow; waitfor(YesBh,'UserData'); % just in case user deletes figure rather than clicking button if isempty(findobj('Tag',['Questionable Figure ' int2str(QueryFighNr) ])) UserResponse = -1; else UserResponse = get(YesBh,'UserData'); delete(QueryFigh); end return;