Stop the function pause(n)

Hi everybody,

i've a question about pause(n) where n is the time in seconds.

The fragment code where i've the problem is this:

tic
  while (~get(handles.pause,'Value')) %toc<=60 &&
      writePosition(s,maxTravel);
      pause(ts);   
      writePosition(s,INITPOS);
      pause(ts);
      cycle = cycle+1;
      cycleTotal(day+1) = cycle+1;
      [time,minutes,hours,day] = timerFun(minutes,hours,day,toc);
      set(handles.status,'String',time);
      pause(ttot);
  end

in fact i use the 'Value' of ToggleButton, named pause, to stop the while cycle, but the pause(ttot) varies (i.e. 1 second or 20 seconds), obviously if the waiting time is short the ToggleButton 'Value' is checked frequently, otherwise if the waiting time is long when i push the ToggleButton on the GUI i must wait the end of pause before the while-cycle 'Value' is invoked.

Is there a trick to stop pause() function or other method to check the ToggleButton 'Value' independently from pause function?

[Geoff Hayes]

Niccolò - how does the ttot value vary since it is never assigned a value once the while loop starts? I don't think that you can cancel the pause once it has started...

[Niccolò de Cesare]

Sorry,

I've omitted pre and post code at cycle. This piece of code is into a GUI and user, through a text box, sets the delay and start the process with a button. As I said the delay varies and thus the togglebutton check is slow if the pause(ttot) is long. If ttot=20, for example and I press togglebutton when the pause is just started I must wait 20 seconds before the check happen, therefore I'm interested to know if there's a way to stop the pause function or to make a togglebutton check in other manner.

[Tonghui Zhang]

Hi，

I am confronted with this problem now. When I quit GUI, the pause function is still working. I am wondering if there is any method to terminate it when the GUI is close(except ctrl+c)?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Rather than using a while loop in your GUI code, use a timer which you can then programmatically start and stop. See https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/284202-how-to-plot-a-real-time-signal-with-axes-automatically-updating for one such example.