out of scope timer or not saved to variable

Question

Ali Omar 2011-8-25

delete a timer that was not declared to a variable

start(timer('TimerFcn',@callbckfcn, 'StartDelay', 1, 'Period',5, 'ExecutionMode', 'fixedRate'));

delete a timer that was declared inside a function that has terminated

function fcn
t1 = timer('TimerFcn',@callbckfcn, 'StartDelay', 1, 'Period',5, 'ExecutionMode', 'fixedRate');
start(t1);
end

Answer 1

Paulo Silva 2011-8-25

delete(timerfindall)  %if you only have that timer
%timerfindall is a MATLAB function

Ali Omar 2011-8-25

that was fast, precise and did the trick..... thanx

Paulo Silva 2011-8-25

You can also create timers with something in their Tag property and find them with timerfind

timer('TimerFcn','disp(1)', 'StartDelay', 1,...

'Period',5, 'ExecutionMode', 'fixedRate','Tag','MyTimer')

%just in case it's running (no warnings using the delete function)

stop(timerfind('Tag','MyTimer'))

delete(timerfind('Tag','MyTimer')) %it's stopped so you can now delete it