Uigetfile will make app be behind another windows.

I use APP Designer to make a App figure. I want to load my file and display its name，so I use uigetfile. But used uigetfile will make my figure be behind another windows, I have to click it in Taskbar again. Why is this so?

Answer 1

[Ajay Kumar]

add these lines after uigetfile

drawnow;
figure(app.UIFigure)

assuming your UIFigure's name is app.UIFigure

[Rouven Bastke]

worked for me, thanks!

Answer 2

[Melaku Eneayehu]

add the following two lines of code just after uigetfile() app.UIFigure.Visible = 'off'; app.UIFigure.Visible = 'on';

don't forgot to edit figure per-fix if you don't use the default one

Answer 3

[Riyadh Abbas]

Hi there, I found a solution to this issue provided by http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/solving-a-matlab-hang-problem, which suggested adding two lines drawnow; pause(0.05);

I tried it and it did work for me, hope can solve your problem.

[Petar Lambrev]

drawnow; pause(0.05); Does not work for me. After closing get file window, the main app window is in the background.

[Chris McRaven]

This does not work for me either. I have described my steps to reproduce here.

Answer 4

[Matthew Thomas]

This is a duplicate of https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/296305-appdesigner-window-ends-up-in-background-after-uigetfile , you might find some answers there.

It does seem to be unintended behaviour though, it is frustrating to need to work around this.

Answer 5

[Onur Ozdemir]

All given answers address getting the app window back as focus after uigetfile but what is preferred is to prevent it from minimizing in the first place. You can check out my answer to this question here, which is the same question.

Answer 6

[Jorg Woehl]

I have just published a simple workaround for these focus issues, which -- as The MathWorks acknowledges -- still have "currently no official workaround". Check out my File Exchange contribution https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/165961-fixfocus.

Answer 7

[Adam Danz]

Thanks for reporting the problem.

This has been fixed in R2025a. Focus now returns to the app that called uigetfile after the dialog is closed. The fix is also available in the R2024a and R2024b beta releases only (not the R2024a and R2024b general releases).