How do I add a timer to a button push function that creates a scatter plot?

I have a button push function right now that creates a scatter plot with randomly spaced dots and exes. I need to make a timer that starts when the button which plots the scatter plot is pushed and stops when another key such as 1 or 2 is pressed and records the time elapsed and I am not sure how to do this. Does anyone now how? Thanks in advance for your help!

function buttonPlot
% Create a figure window
fig = uifigure;

% Create a UI axes
ax = uiaxes('Parent',fig,...
    'Xlim',[0 10], 'YLim',[0 10],...
    'Position',[104, 123, 300, 201]);
%create tic toc timer? Not sure how do do this part


% Creat button push
btn = uibutton(fig,'push',...
    'Position',[420, 218, 100, 22],...
    'ButtonPushedFcn', @(btn,event) plotButtonPushed(btn,ax));

end

% Create the function for the ButtonPushedFcn callback
function plotButtonPushed(btn,ax)
x1 = rand(1,10)*10;
y1 = rand(1,10)*10;
x2 = rand(1,10)*10;
y2 = rand(1,10)*10;
scatter(ax,x1,y1,100,"green","filled","o")
hold(ax,'on')
scatter(ax,x2,y2,150,"red","+")
hold(ax,"off")
end

Answer 1

[NIVEDITA MAJEE]

Hi Peter,

I have made some modifications to your given code which displays the time elapsed between clicking of Start and Stop button.

function buttonPlot
% Create a figure window
fig = uifigure;

% Create a UI axes
ax = uiaxes('Parent',fig,...
    'Xlim',[0 10], 'YLim',[0 10],...
    'Position',[104, 123, 300, 201]);

%Text area to display elapsed time
textarea = uitextarea(fig,'Position',[420, 300, 100, 50]);


% Creat button push for start and stop
start_button = uibutton(fig,'push', 'Text', 'Start Plot',...
    'Position',[420, 250, 100, 22],...
    'ButtonPushedFcn', @(start_button,event) plotButtonPushed(start_button,ax));

stop_button = uibutton(fig,'push', 'Text', 'Stop Plot',...
    'Position',[420, 218, 100, 22],...
    'ButtonPushedFcn', @(stop_button,event) stop_timer(stop_button));

% callback fucntion for start button pushed
function plotButtonPushed(~,ax)
tic; %starts the timer
x1 = rand(1,10)*10;
y1 = rand(1,10)*10;
x2 = rand(1,10)*10;
y2 = rand(1,10)*10;
scatter(ax,x1,y1,100,"green","filled","o")
hold(ax,'on')
scatter(ax,x2,y2,150,"red","+")
hold(ax,"off")
end
% callback fucntion for stop button pushed
function stop_timer(~)
time = toc; %stops the timer
textarea.Value = sprintf("Elapsed time is %.3f seconds",time); %displays the time in seconds upto 3 decimal points
end
end

Hope this helps!

[Peter]

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it.