GUI in Busy Status - Block interactions in the Figure

Hello,

I have a simple GUI, with menus, toolbars and axes. When I execute a long task, I want to change the cursor to a watch to inform the user that a task is currently beeing executed, and I want to forbid any call on the menus or toolbar until the task is done.

I basically do that: %Get Old Pointer old_pointer = get(figure_handle, 'Pointer');

% Set pointer to a Watch set(figure_handle, 'Pointer', 'watch') redraw;

% Execute my task task()

% Reset the old pointer set(figure_handle, 'Pointer', old_pointer);

Doing that is not enough. I have 2 main issues:

1. I can still click on menus and toolbars. It should be forbidden.

2. When I hover my mouse on top of toolbars or menus or outside of the figure, the pointer changes automatically to something else. When I go back to the axes, the pointer is back to what I imagine is the default pointer, an arrow, despite the fact that my task is still running.

I basically want the pointer to be a watch in any situation when the mouse is hovering over the window while the task is executing. And I want it impossible to click on a menu, or on the toolbar.

Any ideas how to do that?

Thanks

Erwan

Answer 1

[Geoff]

Maybe you could look at

doc uiwait

Dunno how to stop clicks on the menu/toolbar. But you could just hide them =)

set(gcf, 'ToolBar', 'none')
set(gcf, 'MenuBar', 'none')

Sorry this is a bit of a hack-job answer. But sometimes that's enough for someone's purposes.