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chsafouane
chsafouane

Reputation: 311

Matlab GUI waitbar

I was writing a little script to start getting used to waitbars in MATLAB and I wanted to set the edge color of the waitbar to green and the face color to blue but it just doesn't work; I keep getting the face color in green and the edge in black. Here's the code:

wb=waitbar(0,'Iterating...');
set(wb,'Name','Changing color');
wbobject=findobj(wb,'Type','Patch');
set(wbobject,'EdgeColor',[0 1 0],'FaceColor',[0 0 1]);
for i=1:1000
    waitbar(i/1000)
end
delete(wb);

An additional question: Would you mind explaining or referring me to a source in order to understand what is a patch in MATLAB?

Thank you!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 445

Answers (1)

Suever
Suever

Reputation: 65430

You aren't able to see the change in EdgeColor because the waitbar figure contains a line object which is that outline. You'll want to find that line object and change the Color property of it

wb=waitbar(0,'Iterating...');
set(wb,'Name','Changing color');
wbobject=findobj(wb,'Type','Patch');
set(wbobject,'EdgeColor',[0 1 0],'FaceColor',[0 0 1]);

hline = findall(wb, 'type', 'line');
set(hline, 'Color', [0 1 0]);

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Also a patch object is described in the documentation. It is essentially a filled polygon. waitbar uses one to represent the rectangle that indicates the progress.

Upvotes: 1

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