problem with waitbar cancel button
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All,
I'm encountering a little problem with a cancel button on a waitbar. I can get the Matlab example in the help file to work perfectly, although for some reason when I try it in my code, it does not seem to acknowledge the callback for the cancel button. Heres what I have:
hWaitBar = waitbar(0, '',...
'Name', 'LOADING IMAGES - PLEASE WAIT...',...
'CreateCancelBtn','setappdata(gcbf,''Canceling'',1)');
setappdata(hWaitBar,'Canceling',0)
for i=3:size(filelist,1)
%do stuff here
getappdata(hWaitBar,'Canceling')
% Check for Cancel button press
ch = getappdata(hWaitBar, 'Canceling')
if getappdata(hWaitBar,'Canceling') ==1
break
end
waitbar(i/size(filelist,1),hWaitBar)
end
delete(hWaitBar)
The check command 'getappdata(hWaitBar,'Canceling')' inside the loop never returns the value of 1, which it should do from the callback defined in hWaitBar.
The only difference I can think of between the matlab example and my code is that all my above code is located in a set if-else loops (4 deep). Would this be responsible?
Thanks
Jim
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Answers (2)
Walter Roberson
on 5 Oct 2012
Try adding a drawnow() call inside the loop, so that the callback of canceling the waitbar will have a chance to run.
Alexander Kosenkov
on 30 May 2016
The currently running function must be started from a button/menu, where Interruptible is set to 'on'. Otherwise, currently running calculation (the one that opened the progress bar) can not be interrupted even to set 'Canceling' to 1.
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