how to create a msgbox without "ok" button?

I need to create a "please wait..." message box, that will keep user from interacting with GUI and will close once internal calculation is completed. I don't want it to have the "ok" button. How do I do that?

[Doug Hull]

If there is no button, what would you do to close it? MSGBOX is a convenience, you can write your own GUI pretty easy.

[A]

I would do this:

h=<dialog>('please wait');
<calculation>
close (h);

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

It sounds like you want a waitbar.

doc waitbar

[A]

that would be nice; except the calculation is actually just a save command to save 2 gigs of data; so there is no way to track progress in a waitbar

[Sean de Wolski]

Then literally just make a modal figure that says saving...

h = figure('units','pixels','position',[500 500 200 50],'windowstyle','modal');
uicontrol('style','text','string','Saving...','units','pixels','position',[75 10 50 30]);

%blah

close(h)