MATLAB: How to stop MATLAB from changing the focus to a random window after closing a dialog

dialoggui

Hi,

when I create a simple dialog like:

dialog('name','My Dialog');

and then close it using the "X" an arbitrary other window (not another MATLAB figure, just a random program like outlook) gets the focus.

strange :-S

Any ideas?

Greetings

Jeffrey

Best Answer

Hmmm. This seems to happen if the 'WindowStyle' is 'Modal':

figure('windowstyle','modal')

Apparently setting the CloseRequestFcn to delete(src) fixes it:

figure('windowstyle','modal','closerequestfcn',@(src,evt)delete(src))

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