displayin status msg's in a gui

I hav a gui and the backend of it takes some time after getting input to generate the output. I feel like my app will be more user friendly if the user can know whether the program is running or not..i.e i want my gui to display a status msg like processing wen the program is running and completed after my program has run.. how should i go abt this??

Answer 1

[Jan]

Usual methods:

• A progressbar, e.g. WAITBAR - this allows the user to estimate the remaining time
• UICONTROL('Style', 'Text', 'String', 'Please wait');
• Have you seen the "Busy" message in the bottom left of Matlab's command window while the program is running?
• Set the window title, which allows the user to see the progres state in the taskbar:

FigH = figure('NumberTitle', 'off');
set(FigH, 'Name', 'My program: RUNNING...');
drawnow;
...
set(FigH, 'Name', 'My program');
drawnow;

[Ram]

thank u .. :) it worked!!

Answer 2

[Robert Cumming]

see

help waitbar

[Ram]

thank u :)