Waitbar problems in GUI

Hello Matlab community!

I have a GUI in GUIDE and in one figure axes, some plottings are performed in a loop and finally I end up with a plot with pultiple lines (e.g. see fig1 attached)!

The point is that I have to use a waitbar till the whole process is finished, BUT, the waitbar doesn't allow me to use any other software in my PC since it always should pop up after each loop till all lines are all plotted!

So, do you know any solution for that???

I thought either:

1) you know something about WAITBAR properties that I am unaware of, that could allow me to work on other things on my PC while GUI software is running

or

2) Put waitbar integrated in a figure on the GUI! For that solution, I tried everything but still I cannot integrate it successfully!

Could someone give a solution????

Answer 1

[TED MOSBY]

Hi Abaza,

You may try the following workarounds:

1. Change the "Window style" to "normal" : https://in.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/waitbar.html?searchHighlight=waitbar&s_tid=srchtitle_support_results_1_waitbar#:~:text=Window%20style%2C%20specified%20as%20one%20of%20the%20following%3A
2. Don’t use waitbar at all - draw a progress bar inside your existing GUIDE figure. It won’t create new windows, so it never makes your PC inaccessible : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5368861/how-to-add-progress-bar-control-to-matlab-gui
3. If you want to keep waitbar, avoid calling waitbar in every iteration (that brings the window to the front). Instead you can create it once and update its patch directly.

Hope it helps!