Break loop with a click of a button?

I am using GUIDE to make a GUI. I have two buttons. The first one has a while loop ongoing with pause(). The second button I would like to make it so that the first button's loop is stopped immediately. What are some best ways I can achieve this?

Answer 1

[KSSV]

You can put a button and call 'break'....loop will exit once it finds break..

Eg:

for i = 1:100
disp(i)
if i == 77
disp('Got break, I am exiting')
break
end
end

[JohnJ]

That is possible but I want my second button to be the one to determine when the loop stop. Say my loop has a pause for 30 seconds per step and clicking the second button will break the loop there and then.

[KSSV]

Yes...it is possible...make a function, type break in it and call this function by clicking second button.