waitmex: using a waitbar inside a C mexFunction

A set of C routines for creating, updating, and destroying a waitbar from within a mexFunction

Description

waitmex provides for C-callable functions tha provide access to the MATLAB waitbar mechanism from within a C mexFunction.

In C, you can do the following:

h = waitbar_create (0,"please wait...") ;

waitbar_update (0.1, h) ;

waitbar_update (0.5, h, "half way ...") ;

waitbar_destroy (h) ;

which are equivalent to the following MATLAB M-file statements, respectively:

h = waitbar (0, 'Please wait...') ;

waitbar (0.1, h) ;

waitbar (0.5, h, 'half way...') ;

close (h) ;

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)