MATLAB: Waitbar won’t close

guiwaitbar quit force

[EDIT: Thu May 26 18:36:12 UTC 2011 – Reformat – MKF]
Hi all,
I'm trying to use a waitbar to make my function a bit more user friendly.
It works as I intend it to, except for the fact that I cannot close the waitbar window after the function is done executing, or if I cancell the process half way through. I actually have to "quit force" to shut matlab down to close get rid of the waitbar window.
Bellow is an example of how I create the waitbar. Could somebody suggest what could be causing the problem?
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%estimate length of time of computation
%time for first loop:
time1=10;
%time for second loop:
time2=20;
%total time:
total_time=time1+time2;
%create a waitbar
h.waitbar=waitbar(0,'Importing and processing data...','Name','Progress',...
            'CreateCancelBtn',...
            'setappdata(gcbf,''canceling'',1)');
setappdata(h.waitbar,'canceling',0)
%first loop:
for step=1:steps
waitbar(step/steps*time1/total_time)
end
%update waitbar message
waitbar(time1/total_time,h.waitbar,'Generating the animation...');
%second loop:
for step=1:steps
waitbar(time1/total_time+step/steps*time2/total_time,h.waitbar)
end
%close the waitbar
close(h.waitbar);
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Best Answer

Use:
delete(h.waitbar);
instead of
close(h.waitbar);
Basically what happens is that when you set the CreatCancelBtn property this also sets the CloseRequestFcn to the same thing. Thus calling CLOSE only sets the appdata to the figure.
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