Pause until input from one of two buttons

I am trying to create a simple game that runs after hitting the start button, but at various times will pause for the user to click one of the two buttons before continuing. I can't figure out how to get it to pause for that, though, as "pause" is just a timer and "uiwait" seems to only work with images closing. How would I go about doing this?

Please don't be too complicated. I'm new to MATLAB app designer

properties (Access = private)
        Playerimage= ["start_1.png" , "start_2.png", "start_3.png","start_4.png","standing.png", "jump.png", "travel.png"];
        Enemyimage= [];
        Jump = 0;
        Scenario = "attack"
        PlayerHP = [];
        EnemyHP = [];
    end



function StartButtonPushed(app, event)
    %
    %    
    %intro stuff
    %   
    %
    
    
    %right here I want to have some code that pauses until I activate one of the two function callbacks
    % for the two buttons I made (as seen in the functions below) so the user can choose 
    % whether or not the character jumps
    
        %if statement for whether or not the player jumps
        if app.Jump == 1;
            im1.Position = [100 250 120 120]
            im1.ImageSource = app.Playerimage(6)
        elseif app.Jump == 0;  
            im1.Position = [100 200 120 120]
            im1.ImageSource = app.Playerimage(5)
        end
end


% Button pushed function: JumpButton
function JumpButtonPushed(app, event)
        %makes the character either jump dodge or jump attack
        app.Jump = 1;
end

 % Button pushed function: GroundButton
 function GroundButtonPushed(app, event)
        %makes the character either stay on the ground or do a ground
        %attack
        app.Jump = 0;
 end

Answer 1

[Rik]

You can also unpause uiwait with uiresume, not just by closing the figure.

[Brian Clyde]

whenever i use "uiwait" it brings up a new figure. how do i keep that from happening?. If I could keep the new figure from appearing, then that would work

[Rik]

What syntax are you using with uiwait? You need to provide the handle to you uifigure as input.

[Brian Clyde]

I just used uiwait(). I don't know what to fully put in it because I learned about it today

[Rik]

I haven't worked with AppDesigner, so I'm guessing a bit here, but based on this doc page the handle to your uifigure is probably app.UIFigure.

uiwait(app.UIFigure)

[Brian Clyde]

that worked, thank you!

I just put that in and then uiresume(app.UIFigure) in the fuctions and it works. Thank you for your help!