How to bring the form back to focus after the code finish ploting in matlab?

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Hi folks, my code uses Matlab as a COM server and has matlab plot some data in a figure, which is opened up in a new window named 'Figure 1' normally. After it's done plotting I hope to give focus back to the form that calls the sub that execute the matlab commands. I've tried to add two lines after the sub call

VB

PassDataNPlot()
Me.BringToFront()
Me.Focus()

but when it's done plotting the matlab figure is still on top of my form. I wonder what else could do the trick? any suggestions?

Posted 17-Jul-12 9:36am

SandiegoSSD

Updated 17-Jul-12 9:37am

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Albert Holguin 17-Jul-12 16:46pm

Is the call to plot synchronous or asynchronous? I ask because what may be occurring is that you're passing an asynch call to Matlab to do something and before Matlab is even done, you gave yourself focus... meaning that when Matlab is done plotting, it may just give itself focus again. If that's your problem, then you need to either make the events synchronous or kill some time in your app to allow Matlab to finish.

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Sreegth V · Answer 1 · 2012-08-23T00:36:00

Solution 1

create an object of the form and use the Show() method with the object.

eg:

C#

frmNew obj=new frmNew();
obj.show();

Posted 23-Aug-12 0:36am

Sreegth V

Updated 25-Aug-12 1:54am

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