Progress bar for several functions nested in GUI

Ok, I have an Input GUI that lets you set about 30 values then click a button to run the program. The program has about 5 nested functions and calculates a very complex thermal fluid problem and takes a minimum of 40 seconds to run. I was just wondering if theres a way to run another very simple waiting display function i wrote while matlab is busy doing that. I can get the wait display to start working but as of right now it stops when it enters the calculation functions. I just want something going on while that internal function is calculating so the user doesnt think the program has frozen. Ill probably figure something out eventually but just wondered if i can have a simple function running alongside my main function.

Thanks, Hans

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

There are tons of waitbar and status bar submissions to the FEX. My guess is statusbar by Yair will be top notch.

There was also progbar which was a pick of the week.

It seems 2012a (and maybe earlier) has a function called waitbar