How to make a GUI Non-active But stays visible.

There are two GUIs, GUI1 has several buttons one of them is used to run GUI2, and GUI2 has one “OK” button.

The Question:

How to make GUI1 non-active but stays visible when GUI2 is called, and Reversely how GUI1 can go back to be active, when GUI2 is closed.

Answer 1

[Jan]

See http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/15895-enabledisable-figure.

[Digitalsd]

Thanks for David and Jan Simon

Answer 2

[David Barry]

You could look to set the enabled property of items in your non-active GUI to off or inactive when GUI2 becomes visible.

[Digitalsd]

In the same callback that run GUI2, I can set the enable property of each button in GUI1 to be OFF, but how I can turn them ON when GUI2 is closed.

To simplify the problem:

GUI1 represent the main application window and this window has an “About” button, Once “About” button is pressed the main window will become non active and a small window GUI2 will show up, this small window has only an “OK” button, the user must press the “OK” button before going back to active main window GUI1.