How to create STOP button in GUI to stop my GA optimization?

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I have a GUI with "Optimize" and "Stop" pushbuttons. Pressing "Optimize" will call "ga" command to run an optimization process with iteration display being on. Now, I'd like for the user to be able to stop the GA process whenever "Stop" button is clicked. Could you please help me how to invoke GA from GUI to stop and then retrieve the best set of parameters GA has found so far? Thanks!

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Alan Weiss
Alan Weiss on 5 Mar 2015
Have your GUI call ga with an output function. As explained in the documentation,
"The output function returns the following arguments to ga:
  • state — Structure containing information about the current generation. The State Structure describes the fields of state. To stop the iterations, set state.StopFlag to a nonempty string."
Alan Weiss
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Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 5 Mar 2015
You'll need to add a drawnow to flush the event queue (I.e. capture the mouse click event).
The optimizer will still finish the iteration it's on either way.
Hossein
Hossein on 5 Mar 2015
Thank you, Sean! it's now working by putting the "drawnow" at the begining of my OutputFcn to flush event queue as you mentioned.

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