Change the name of cancel button in waitbar

The term "cancel" is different than "stop". For me, "cancel" means "forget whole the calculations", while "stop" means "save the calculations up to now".

Is it possible to customize the string of "cancel button"? I'd like to change its name to "stop".

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

If you are adding the cancel button by using the CreateCancelBtn option of waitbar(), then record the handle that is output from waitbar(), and then...

t = get(WaitBarHandleGoesHere, 'children');
set(t(2), 'String', 'Stop')

[Moritz]

Many thanks for your very fast and correct answer!!!

[Frank Madrid]

In Matlab 9.5.0.882065 (R2018b), I needed to replace

set(t(2), 'String', 'Stop')

with

set(t(1), 'String', 'Stop')

to achieve the same functionality.

[engdancili]

And to be more compact just write

set(f.Children(1), 'String', 'Stop')

where f is the waitbar handle