How do I stop MATLAB from changing the focus to a random window after closing a dialog?

Hi,

when I create a simple dialog like:

dialog('name','My Dialog');

and then close it using the "X" an arbitrary other window (not another MATLAB figure, just a random program like outlook) gets the focus.

strange :-S

Any ideas?

Greetings

Jeffrey

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Hmmm. This seems to happen if the 'WindowStyle' is 'Modal':

figure('windowstyle','modal')

Apparently setting the CloseRequestFcn to delete(src) fixes it:

figure('windowstyle','modal','closerequestfcn',@(src,evt)delete(src))

Answer 2

[Jeffrey]

Thank you! that works,

But shouldn't this be the standard? Looks like a bug for me?

[Sean de Wolski]

Yeah, I have passed it along :)

Answer 3

[Matt Fig]

I cannot reproduce this. Perhaps if you use the figure command after you call DIALOG you can regain focus where you want. I assume you are calling DIALOG programmatically?

figure(fig_handle)

[Sean de Wolski]

It seems to be 12a only for me.