tomwalters@0: % method of class @parameter
tomwalters@0: %
bleeck@3: % (c) 2011, University of Southampton
bleeck@3: % Maintained by Stefan Bleeck (bleeck@gmail.com)
bleeck@3: % download of current version is on the soundsoftware site: 
bleeck@3: % http://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/aimmat
bleeck@3: % documentation and everything is on http://www.acousticscale.org
tomwalters@0: function val=getstringvalue(param,text,panel)
tomwalters@0: % returns the current value of the parameter as a string
tomwalters@0: % this is particulary useful for integer values in the form 1:10
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0: cont=param.entries;
tomwalters@0: nrent=length(cont);
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0: if nargin<3 % search in all subsections
tomwalters@0:     panel='all';
tomwalters@0: end
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0: nr=getentrynumberbytext(param,text,panel);
tomwalters@0: if nr>0
tomwalters@0:     type=cont{nr}.type;
tomwalters@0: 
tomwalters@0:     handleb=gethandle(param,text,panel,1);
tomwalters@0:     if ~isequal(handleb,0) && ishandle(handleb) % yes, there is a screen representation
tomwalters@0:         val=get(handleb,'string');
tomwalters@0:         return
tomwalters@0:     else
tomwalters@0:         if strcmp(type,'float')
tomwalters@0:             val=cont{nr}.stringvalue;
tomwalters@0:             return
tomwalters@0:         else
tomwalters@0:             val=cont{nr}.value;
tomwalters@0:             if ischar(val)
tomwalters@0:                 return
tomwalters@0:             elseif isnumeric(val)
tomwalters@0:                 val=num2str(val);
tomwalters@0:                 return
tomwalters@0:             end
tomwalters@0:         end
tomwalters@0:     end
tomwalters@0: else
tomwalters@0:     error('error, the entry does not exist');
tomwalters@0:     %     val=0;  % we must return a logical value otherwise it can generate difficult errors
tomwalters@0: end