Wait for app to close before continuing with script
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Hi,
I'm a newb to using App Designer. I've built the GUI that works wonderfully, and can open it programmatically from my main .m script. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to force the .m script to wait for the App GUI to close. I figure it has something to do with assigning modality in App Designer. I've tried using a waitfor indexing with a variable written to my base workspace from the app to no avail. I've tried using a while condition, also to no avail. Are there any ways to make the main script wait for the app to close before continuing?
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Mario Malic
on 16 Nov 2020
Hello Frankie,
Here's an example how to do it.
app = NameOfApp;
while isvalid(app); pause(0.1); end
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Mario Malic
on 17 Jun 2021
If it's made by guide and can be detected by gca, you can try with the code below, otherwise, see step 2 of this answer
fig = gca;
if isvalid(fig)
waitfor(fig);
end
You can try removing CloseRequestFcn, write a public function so you could close it in your script.
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