Deselect uimenus after click in GUI

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Cédric Devivier
Cédric Devivier on 27 Feb 2013
Edited: Jeffrey Girard on 26 Feb 2015
Dear all,
I am facing a GUI issue. In the following example, if you click on a menu and slide to the other one, the second one is triggered. I don't want this behaviour. Could someone guide me toward a solution?
function mwe(varargin)
handles.main = figure;
set(handles.main,'Units','pixels','Position',[300 300 210 50],...
'DockControls','Off','MenuBar','none','Toolbar','none');
handles.menu1 = uimenu('Parent',handles.main,'Label','Menu1');
handles.menu2 = uimenu('Parent',handles.main,'Label','Menu2');
handles.txt = uicontrol(handles.main,'Style','text','Units','pixels',...
'String','','HorizontalAlignment','Center','Position',[5 5 200 40]);
set(handles.menu1,'CallBack',{@fcn_txt,handles});
set(handles.menu2,'CallBack',{@fcn_txt,handles});
end
function fcn_txt(hObject,eventdata,handles)
set(handles.txt,'String',get(hObject,'Label'));
end
I tried different solutions and the only one working at the moment is to put a waitbar. I even tried using the setArmed Java method.
Thank you for your help, Cédric
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Sean de Wolski
Sean de Wolski on 28 Feb 2013
Edited: Sean de Wolski on 28 Feb 2013
So just to be crystal clear you want the focus to be restored to the figure after?
Cédric Devivier
Cédric Devivier on 28 Feb 2013
I need the uimenu to lose the focus. It may be going somewhere else the figure for instance. I tried adding simply figure(gcf) but it did not work.

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Answers (2)

Jan
Jan on 28 Feb 2013
There might be an equivalent effect for UICONTROLs. Here even the focus remains at the UICONTROL, such that e.g. the KeyPress fcuntion of the figure is not triggered anymore. In this case a solution is:
set(ObjectH, 'Enable', 'off');
drawnow;
set(ObjectH, 'Enable', 'on');
This is more compact than letting the java.robot click to an arbitrary position - which is a very bold action I'd avoid under all circumstances.
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Jan
Jan on 28 Feb 2013
there could be a GUI with a dangerous button at the location [0,0], e.g. the confirmation dialog of a disk formatting. Or it could be another menu element of the same GUI.
Cédric Devivier
Cédric Devivier on 28 Feb 2013
Thank you, I changed it to click on the same figure.

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Jeffrey Girard
Jeffrey Girard on 26 Feb 2015
Edited: Jeffrey Girard on 26 Feb 2015
Unfortunately, Jan's solution didn't work for me either. These aren't ideal solutions, but I have found that this behavior can be avoided by:
  1. Adding a submenu with even one choice
  2. Producing some sort of figure or dialog box with the menu callback (a "success" msgbox)

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