MATLAB Runtime Server

Using a Uicontrol or Uimenu to Exit the Application

In addition to adapting the CloseRequestFcn, you might want to provide a button or menu option on the GUI that allows the user to exit the Runtime Server.

For example, a common GUI convention on most platforms is a File menu containing a Quit option. You can create a menu like this by using a uimenu object with 'shutdown' as the callback, where shutdown.m is a shut-down function that you write. For example,

• fig = figure('HandleVisibility','Callback','Menubar','none',...
  'CloseRequestFcn','shutdown');
  filemmenu = uimenu(fig,'Label','&File');
  quitmenu = uimenu(filemmenu,'Label','&Quit',...
  'Accelerator','Q','Callback','shutdown');
  

Note    Although MATLAB figure windows are created with a default File menu that includes a Quit option, you may have disabled this menu by setting the figure's Menubar property to 'none' (see Preventing Command Window Input/Output).

You can create a Quit button in a similar way.

• fig = figure('HandleVisibility','Callback','Menubar','none',...
  'CloseRequestFcn','shutdown');
  uicontrol(fig,'Style','Pushbutton','String','Quit',...
  'Callback','shutdown')
  

Using the CloseRequestFcn to Exit the Application

Trapping Errors