MATLAB: Does MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1) shut down completely when I type Ctrl+C to terminate the program

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I have a program in MATLAB 7.0.1(R14SP1), that reads in text files, plots multiple bar graphs and uses the UIGETFILE and PAUSE commands. When I attempt to terminate MATLAB, using Ctrl+C during the execution of this program, MATLAB exits completely without any errors or crash dump files.

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This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 2 (R14SP2). For previous releases, please read below for any possible workarounds:

This problem has been fixed in R14SP2. If you are using an earlier version of MATLAB, please read the following:

We have verified this as a bug in MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1) that affects the way the UIGETFILE and PAUSE functions interact with program termination using Ctrl+C. Currently there are no known workarounds.

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Ilkay - you can try the following which is taken from Loren Shure's blog entry Keeping Things Tidy. It makes use of the onCleanup function which will perform "cleanup" tasks upon function completion or termination.

Suppose you have some function that does some work in a while or for loop which may take so long that the user becomes impatient and presses the ctrl+c to cancel out of the function. Within that function, we define a clean up function to fire when our main function/program terminates

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    end
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        % saves data to file (or could save to workspace)
        fprintf('saving variables to file...\n');
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 end

I tried the above on MATLAB R2014a (Mac OS X 10.8.5) and it would respond to the pressing of ctrl+c - firing the cleanMeUp function before terminating. Of course, that same function will fire if the program terminates regularly (i.e. if some exit condition is met and the code exits the while loop gracefully).

MATLAB: Disabling Ctrl+C in a GUI

No, there is not. control-c cannot be disabled in MATLAB.

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