diff --git a/src/+gui_auxiliary/set_command_option.m b/src/+gui_auxiliary/set_command_option.m
index 8cc0daca6e02dc98d2fa0d94163853c25dad50ff..77745f7225ef1ce160c7cc673eb8d4ffa9a7a674 100644
--- a/src/+gui_auxiliary/set_command_option.m
+++ b/src/+gui_auxiliary/set_command_option.m
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ try
             
         case 'consider_only_observed'
             return;
+            
+        case 'mode_compute'
+            if ~isempty(str2num(value))
+                options_.mode_compute = str2num(value);
+            else
+                options_.mode_compute = value;
+            end
 
         case 'filter_step_ahead'
             options_.filter_step_ahead = eval(value);