How to freeze a figure

Dear all,

I am building a GUI and I would like to make all buttons and stuff inactive during computation. Is there any clever way of doing so? The current solution is to disable and then enable everything single control...

Thank you for your help, Cédric

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

set(handles.yourobject,'enable','off')

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

%or if you put all your button in a panel called for example uipanel1

ButtonsHandle = get(handles.uipanel1,'Children')
set(ButtonsHandle,'enable','off')

[Walter Roberson]

Some of them might already be off, so you should extract their current state so that you can restore it afterwards.

Also, since uipanel can have children that are uipanel, just get()'ing the Children at one level is not generally sufficient.

You also need to cross-check whether Enable Off for a uibuttongroup disables all of the individual buttons.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Create a modal figure; nothing else will be permitted to run until the modal figure is destroyed.

Answer 3

[Cédric Devivier]

Ok, that was my fear. For the moment, I'm setting the enable to off.