Here's (partially) my skanky hack. I place this in the startup function:
set(0,'ShowHiddenHandles','on')
ch = get(0,'Children');
found=zeros(1,length(ch));
keeper=zeros(1,length(ch));
for i=1:length(ch)
if strcmpi(ch(i).Name, 'EM Data Manager')
found(i)=i;
if strcmpi(ch(i).Tag,'EM Data Manager')
keeper(i)=i;
end
end
end
if length(find(keeper>0)) > 1
disp('Panic! Multiple keeper windows found!')
keyboard
elseif length(find(keeper>0))==1
% control window already exists.
ML_W_switch('mlw')
figure(ch(keeper(keeper>0)))
delete(app.EMDataManagerUIFigure)
%close(app.EMDataManagerUIFigure)
%clear app
app=ch(keeper(keeper>0)).UserData;
% doesn't go up the line back to orig caller.
%assignin('caller','app',app);
else
% create new control window
olddir=pwd;
cd(findomprefs)
scrsize=get(0,'ScreenSize');
if exist('datamgr.mat','file')
load datamgr.mat wpos autofilt
try
app.auto_filt.Value = autofilt;
catch
app.auto_filt.Value = 1;
end
else
wpos = [scrsize(3)/2 scrsize(4)/2];
end
try
cd(olddir)
catch
end
cursize=app.EMDataManagerUIFigure.Position;
newsize = [wpos(1:2) cursize(3) cursize(4)];
app.EMDataManagerUIFigure.Position = newsize;
app.loaded_data.UserData = app.f_info;
app.EMDataManagerUIFigure.Tag = 'EM Data Manager';
app.EMDataManagerUIFigure.NextPlot = 'new';
app.EMDataManagerUIFigure.UserData = app;
app.handholder.UserData = app;
end
Basically, I check to see if there is a previous open instance. If there is, I grab its UserData (where I previously stored the original instance's 'app'). I delete the new instance and continue on using the previous 'app' structure.
It works fine, as long as you don't care about the handle that is returned when you call the mlapp. The NEW 'app' is deleted, and that is that all the middle-man functions between your mlapp's startupFcn and the call to it (either command line or from another function) only remember the NEW app, which was deleted. I tried assignin('caller'... but that only gets as far as the next level up in the caller stack.
Another option might be to regularly save all important values from the original instance and transfer them to the new instance before deleting the old instance.
It's a mess.
