Focusing of Main GUI should stop until I press OK button in errordlg box

I have a gui main window which gets some inputs from user.

If their is an error in the input the gui will pops up error message.

my problem is until the user click 'ok' in the errordlg box the main gui should not get focus. can somebody help me.

I tried with waitfor(), uiwait () these function will stop execution of matlab but still main gui can be operated

Answer 1

[Jan]

You can set the "WindowStyle" property of the error message to 'modal'.

[Thulasi Durai Durai Samy]

Can you please little elaborate on it. or can you show the actual command

[Walter Roberson]

set(gcf, 'WindowStyle', 'modal')

[Jan]

It would be easy to show the mdoficiations, if you post the code of "the gui will pops up error message".

[Thulasi Durai Durai Samy]

Thanks, its working fine. Now the errordlg wait till I press ok button. What are the other property that can be assign to Windowstyle property. Is their any blog reference for it.

[Jan]

See "set(gcf)" and "doc figure".