MATLAB: Use button in one gui to enable button in second gui

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I've found lots of solutions regarding sharing information between separate GUIs, and I've gotten pretty good at that, but that requires saving in one, then opening in another. This issue I'm having is a little different-

I have 2 GUIs- guiA and guiB. guiA has buttons that move a highlight square around an axes-picture, but each one pops up guiB with varied information. What I'm trying to do is disable the movement buttons on guiA whenever one is clicked so they can't ignore guiB when it pops up. Then when they click the button on guiB, guiB closes and the buttons on guiA re-enable.

Thanks for your assistance!

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It would probably make more sense to make the second GUI modal. You do that by setting the figure WindowStyle property to 'modal'

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heisenberg - if you are using GUIDE to create your GUI, then you could assign a WindowKeyPressFcn callback to your figure (GUI) and then, based on the key pressed while the figure has focus, you could call the appropriate button.

Suppose that your GUI/figure is named figure1 and you have one push button (named pushbutton1) that you wish to fire when you press the x key. Your callback to capture key presses could look something like

 function figure1_WindowKeyPressFcn(hObject, eventdata, handles)
 % determine the key that was pressed 
 keyPressed = eventdata.Key;
 if strcmpi(keyPressed,'x')
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In the above we check for when the x is pressed and then simulate the pressing of the button by calling the appropriate callback. You may not need to set focus to the button using uicontrol but I don't think that it hurts to do this as well.

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You will have to hard-code this functionality. You will need to create a pushbutton and then under that new pushbutton function you will have to use "set" to restore all your edit boxes back to blank space or a default value. I.e.,

set(handles.my_edit_box,'String','');

set(handles.my_edit_box,'String','some_default_value');

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