GUI Keyboard Commands HELP

Hi,

I have a complex GUI, but I have what I think is a fairly simple problem.

I have keyboard commands set to various commands including button presses (This is because eventually the GUI needs to operate as keyboard only). The problem I have is that I have to manually click the figure window before it allows the GUI to recognise that I'm pressing keyboard buttons.

Is there a way to set the current figure to be the focus so that I don't need to use the mouse?

Thanks in advance!

JD

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

Yes!

You need to steal focu back to the figure from whatever uicontrol/uipanel/axes/etc. has stolen it.

To do this, at the end of a callback function for one of these widgets:

        set(H, 'Enable', 'off');
        drawnow;
        set(H, 'Enable', 'on');

Where H is the handle to that widget.

[John]

Humm... doesn't seem to like that.

Error using hg.figure/set

The name 'Enable' is not an accessible property for an instance of class 'figure'.

Error in ROTv14>Begin_Trial_Callback (line 168)
set(H, 'Enable', 'off');

[Sean de Wolski]

You don't want to disable the figure; You want to disable the widget that stole focus from the figure!

You can use this file as a reference:

boggle-v2-0

I had to take the above steps any time one of the widgets stole focus from the figure.

[Jan]

@John: In Sean's example, H is the handle of the uicontrol or axes object, not the handle of the figure.

[John]

Thanks Saun and Jan. Much appreciated. I've been working on other stuff until now so sorry for the delay in my thanks!