How to wait for an button event with a timeout?

Hi!

I am looping in time through a series of images and I want to give a chance for the user to interact with them between updates. However, I do not want to ask the user at every single update whether they want to interact or not. Ideally I would like to implement something like this:

figure
for t=tini:tfin
  imagesc(squeeze(ima(:,:,t))
  waitforbuttonpress_for_no more_than_200_ms;
  if there_was_a_buttonpress
      do_something_to_figure;
  end
end

Can you help? Many thanks,

Marta

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/16539-mouseinput-timeout

[Marta]

This is exactly what I needed, Walter, many thanks!

Answer 2

[dpb]

doc pause

[Marta]

And how is the event tracked during the pause?

[dpb]

"I don't do windows" <:) so I'm certainly not the best to ask but don't use waitforbuttonpress, set a callback function for the figure instead.

Seems like a reasonable enhancement request to TMW to add a timeout to it, however, maybe.