How do I force breaking from a modal GUI window?

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Hi all,
I'm been running into this problem several times. Say I have a modal GUI window, and if there is something wrong with its close request function, it will give an error message when I try to close it instead of closing, and I can't go back to the command window. Ctrl+C doesn't work either, so I always ends up killing matlab from task manager. Is there a way to break from a modal GUI window?
Thanks!
Niko

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Orion
Orion on 29 Oct 2014
Hi,
one way to manage the closure of a modal figure is to encapsulate your closerequestfcn in a try-catch statement, otherwise I think you'll be forced to kill matlab.
something like :
function YourCloseRequestFcn(...)
try
% your original code which might crash while the developpement stage
catch
closereq; % make sure you close the window.
end

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