Stopping timer object

I want to know if there's a way to stop a timer object while it is running, from my GUI,because I need matlab to be available during the timer execution to stop my experiment in any moment!

Thank you for attention

Answer 1

[Paulo Silva]

If you have the timer handle

stop(timerhandle)

if not you can try

stop(timerfind)

or

stop(timerfindall)

or even

stop(findobj('type','timer'))

Also you might want to use

try
%expression to stop timers
catch
end

That's because you might get errors if there's no timer to be stopped

[Oleg Komarov]

To elaborate a little on Paulo's point you can place a pushbutton in your gui and a nested callback to stop the timer when the button is pressed:

pb = uicontrol('Style' ,'PushButton', 'Pos' ,[10 20 75 25],...

'String','STOP' , 'Call',@pb_call);

function @pb_call(varargin)

try

stop(findobj('type','timer'))

catch

end

end

[Paulo Silva]

Thanks Oleg :)