Execute a command after a delay

Based on this thread I'm not optimistic, but thought I'd give it a try. I'd really like to be able to execute a command after a delay, e.g., run a script that says

pause(10); disp('Hullo')

but have the program continue during the pause time, so that code lines can be executed before the disp command. In linux, one could do this by "backgrounding" the command string. Maybe there's some fancy undocumented way of doing this in matlab? If not it would be a great addition.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Use a timer with a start delay.

T = timer('StartDelay',10,'TimerFcn',@(src,evt)disp('Hello World'));
start(T)
surf(peaks) % something running while timer waiting

And for more info:

doc timer

[Leo Simon]

Fabulous thanks, that will be tremendously useful

[Antonio Del Negro]

what if I'm running the same command inside a MATLAB function block of Simulink? I'm saying this because I tried doing so and the following appears:

"The Timer class does not support code generation"

Any alternative for the case of a matlab function block from simulink? I've been looking all day. Thanks!