Can I run a compiled GUI invisibly? When I do this, the program closes and shuts down).

I have compiled a Matlab program to a standalone executable. Matlab program presents a GUI to the user. I would like to run the GUI invisibly (figure's visible property is 'off'). However, when I run program in deployed operation, program loads and starts to run, but then simply stops and shuts down (application no longer is running under windows). I can run it from within Matlab fine. Is there a way to do this in deployed operation?

Answer 1

[Jan]

Perhaps the function fails with an error? Insert a TRY-CATCH block and write an error message to a file.

There is no general restriction about the visibility of the figure. But it is not clear, why you create a figure at all when it is not shown.

[Richard Garner]

Function does not give an error. It simply stops running. In other words, I double click on executable to start running it, it starts up, but remains invisible (because I set h.Visible='off', where h is a handle to the figure. Then program stops and disappears from system (not in Task Bar anymore -- this is on a Windows system). The person for whom I've written the program would like it to be invisible for various reasons. He then would shut it down from the Windows system. He calls it from another program in different software.

[Richard Garner]

Sorry, I meant Task Manager, not Task Bar