In what ways can Matlab continue running while a window pops up?
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Hi there,
I am running a script which calls an executable (of which I cannot acces the source code) multiple times. From time to time during the run (which can take several hours) Matlab stops running because the executable gives a pop-up window as intermediate output. In order to continue running, I have to click "ok".
The problem is that I don't have the time to click this button over and over again (about every minute during a run of several hours). In what ways can I prevent that Matlab stops running while a window pops up? Can I suppress this pop-up window or make Matlab automatically click "ok"?
Best regards, Simon
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Jan
on 10 Jun 2013
You can emulate a keypress in another application:
- Java-Robot: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/gui-automation-robot/
- FEX: inputEmu
- Undew Windows you can run: FEX: textInject
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Irl
on 30 Aug 2013
Edited: Irl
on 30 Aug 2013
Simon -- I have been trying to get AHK to work with Matlab (e.g., type certain special characters) but Matlab seems to ignore anything coming from AHK. I'm still on Matlab 2010; do you have a version of Matlab which plays well with AHK? Or is is just that you run AHK in some kind of loop which looks for the window from your executable and robo-clicks the "OK" button, rather than interacting directly with Matlab?
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David Sanchez
on 10 Jun 2013
Hi, you could solve the issue in case you had access to the source code of the executable that pops up the cumbersome window. If you can not access that source code, you can not modify the way the pop-up window behaves.
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