Thread Subject: how can I stop running the loop without terminating m-file?

Hello all,
I am posting my question again here cause I couldn't get
the solutions that satisfy me.

Could you see the following simple m-file.


data_temporary=rand(10000,1000);
for i=1:100000
    plot(data_temporaty(i,:));
    pause(0.15)
end



This is for seeing the variation of profile of
matrix 'data_temporaty' continuously like animation.
I want to stop the plotting by typing 's' or 'Enter' or
something other keyboard.
How can I stop the ploting without terminating the m-file?
I mean, I don't want to use ctrl+c.

Someone told me to use 'dbloop.m'. But, honestly speaking,
it is too complicated for me to use.

Thank you in advance.

Il Yoon

Il Yoon,

In my experience, there are some ways to do that.

  1/ If your program has its figure, you can exploit the
properties of this figure to check your Keypress event
      - CurrentCharacter
      - KeyPressFcn
    
    Ex: set(gcf,'KeyPressFcn',...
            'get(gcf,''CurrentCharacter'')')

    Then, any character typed in current figure will be
printed in the command window.
    
   2/ If your program does not have any guide, you can
creat a guide to check KEYEVENT, or you can use java with
getKeyCode.

   3/ If you know PSYCHTOOLBOX, you can use their available
java function to check KEYEVENT:
     KbCheck, ...


Hope you can find your solution.

Anh Huy Phan
RIKEN - BSI