How do I get the UI type of a dialog box?

I have the following code:

h = warndlg;

get(h,'Type');

The above code returns the handle type to be figure. I want to see 'helpdlg' or 'errordlg' or 'warndlg'.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The functionality you are seeing is because the dialog boxes are built using the handle graphics infrastructure. All the dialog boxes are contained within a figure object, hence the handle type is figure.

To work around this limitation you can query the "TAG" property of the object as follows:

h = warndlg;

get(h,'Tag');

The above code returns:

 Msgbox_Warning Dialog

The limitation of the above workaround is that "TAG" is not a read only property and can be changed by users.