Improved waitbar

Progress bar (waitbar) that can be embedded into a GUI uipanel element and/or decremented.

Description

The standard WAITBAR function (and the improved WAITBAR2 function, which this code is based on) must appear in their own figure windows, and cannot be embedded into a GUI. They also display incorrectly if the progress is reduced (e.g., when resetting an embedded progress bar).

WAITBAR2A is a drop-in replacement for either of the earlier functions, that has the additional capability to be initialized with the handle of a uipanel, in which case it draws into that uipanel rather than a new figure, and to be decremented.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge the following in the creation of this submission:
Waitbar2

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a)

[Anton Semechko]

Works great ... generic MatLab waitbar has really limited use as it cannot be easily incorporated directly into a GUI ... but this one does the trick. Thanks !!!

[Celine Cluzel]

 

[Jeff Warner]

I managed to get it embedded in a GUI but I want to change the size of the waitbar. How do I accomplish that? Is there a specific example? Does the updated text always appear above the waitbar or can it appear inside the waitbar?

[Ross Hatton]

The waitbar sizes itself to the uipanel it is embedded in, and places the text accordingly. If you want to change this geometry, you can either modify the handle structure directly (the same as if you were setting up custom axes on a plot), or modify the code in "case 3" of the switch statement.