Stop the pause(inf) from GUI or callbacks?

Hi All

I am writting a program with GUIs and other computations runing nearly simultaneously. After my computation is done, I want to pause the main matlab thread forever. This will let my GUI updating completely without any delay. And then if the GUI or other callbacks want to start another round of computation, GUI can stop the pause(inf) within the callback. I tested several ways to stop pause(inf) from callbacks, including pause('off'), pause(0.1), drawnow etc. But they have no effect! Could anyone let me know how to do this?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Do not do it that way. waitfor() the figure handle instead. The waitfor() will not return until the figure handle is deleted.

[Minggui Chen]

Thanks, Walter. I do not want my GUI to be closed. I want both of them are there so that it is possible to switch between these two components. Waitfor seems to be not suitable for this purpose. Do you have any other suggestion? Thanks again.

[Walter Roberson]

waitfor() a handle property to change or to change to a particular value. The GUI would set the appropriate handle property when it was requesting a resumption.