Continuously Update a GUIDE Object Based on Time

I have written a GUI using GUIDE. In it, I have several static text boxes that I would like to continuously update at a specified frequency (say, twice a second). These updates should be independent of the other functions in the GUI, like button clicks. What I would like to do is to have a few text boxes that continuously display the system status, like whether the power is on or off, whether it is running or not, how many cycles it has gone through...

I can update the text boxes like so:

 set(handles.System_Status,'String','Running');
 set(handles.Power,'String','On');

But I can only execute that code on a button press.

Is there a way to allow the code to continuously run some function in the background?

Answer 1

[Joseph Cheng]

you put the correct item in your tag. you can use the timer functionality inside the GUI.

[Joseph Cheng]

place the timer initialization in either a start button or at the initialization of the GUI.

[Marc]

Thanks Joseph. I see that now. What happens if I trigger other GUI objects at the same time as the timer function is running or is supposed to run? Will it delay one of them?