changing values of an edit box on gui while timer is printing on a figure

Hello,

I am running a timer, where it takes real data and plots them every 0.1 seconds. I am plotting the data on a normal figure(not embedded in gui). I also created a gui so that i can change some values in real time. However, whenever I click on edit box to change some values, I have only 0.1 sec to write something in the edit box (which is not enough...) before the plot callback command runs. Once the plot callback commands starts I have to click with my mouse again in the edit box to be able to write in it..

Is there a way, to make the gui the main window so that i can write in edit boxes while updating the figure in real time?

Thanks.. M

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

How are you plotting it? If you update the Data of an existing HG object, focus will not be requested. Consider this example:

figure;axes;
hPlot = plot(1:10);
T = timer('Period',0.25,'TimerFcn',@(~,~)set(hPlot,'YData',rand(1,10)),...
  'TasksToExecute',200,'ExecutionMode','FixedRate'); %Note updatign existing line!
start(T);
figure;
uicontrol('style','edit','String','Type in me!');

Answer 2

[N/A]

hey Sean, Thanks, I was calling in my callback

 1- hplot = figure(1);
 2- axes;
 3- set(hPlot,'YData',rand(1,10))

i removed line 1 and 2

and added

refreshdata

as well in the end, and all works fine!!! thanks!

Answer 3

[N/A]

Hi, I stuck on a similar issue, and I am trying below to be descriptive and I would really appreciate your help..

Problem description : If I have a function plothings() within my callback function, which runs every 10 iterations (for example)

%
% this is in callback function
... 
time =time+1

    if mod(time,10)==0
    plotthings()
    end
  ...
  %

then the function plots the figure every time it enters the if loop as expected. Now if I also want to plot things (using plotOtherthings() ), but this time whenever I click a button at a gui, then I am not able to make the figure show as soon as I press the button, but it updates only when the plotthings() in callback is excecuted. The only way i manage to sort this out.. is to do the following

% this is a callback function in Mygui.m where the gui keeps its functions

function plotOtherthings_Callback(hObject, eventdata, handles)
updateMonitors();
refreshdata

where

% helper function for updating monitors
function updateMonitors()
global monitors

1)%h = figure(monitors.h); % I generated and saved this as monitors.h = figure(1)
2)% OR axes(monitors.ax);  works as well

p1 = monitors.p1;       % I generated and saved this as monitors.p1 = plot(...)
set(p1,'XDataSource','x1'); % x1 is a variable in workspace

refreshdata

My issue is that to make it appear whenever I click the button i have to use line 1) or 2) to make figure as my current figure...which I do not want to do as I need the main window to be the gui..(as that was my initial issue in original post..)

[N/A]

Ok,.. for some reason , 'XDatasource' should be replaced with 'XData'. Even though I would have liked to understand the difference...