Ken & Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

June 4th, 2007

Focusing on your work

The MATLAB Desktop is packed with so many great tools, but sometimes they can become distracting. The easiest way to zone into your work, whether that be in the Editor, the Command Window or any other component, is to issue a quick double click to the title bar.
This gesture acts just like the maximize button. The reason I prefer it over its button counterpart is that it doesn’t require such fine motor skills to aquire and click it!

Want to see your Desktop again? Give the components title bar another double-click and voila, you have access to your full Desktop again.

Note: This feature is not yet available for the Mac, though we are activley working on porting it.

1. Double-click the component title bar to maximize the component.
MATLAB Desktop
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2. Double-click the component title again to restore it to its previous size.
MATLAB Editor
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3. Do it all over again!
MATLAB Desktop
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By Ken Orr

Ken is a developer on the MATLAB Desktop team. He loves the art of graphic design as well as developing visually pleasing user interfaces - he's one of those 'crazy' Mac guys!

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4 Responses to “Focusing on your work”

  1. Steve replied on June 4th, 2007 at 19:00 UTC :

    Ken - I loved this feature after I discovered it by reading the R2007a release notes. It’s great for giving presentations when you want to let one of the MATLAB windows temporarily take the whole space. But I didn’t realize you could do it double-clicking on the title bar!

  2. Ken replied on June 5th, 2007 at 07:57 UTC :

    Hey Steve,

    Glad to introduce you to this great feature! I really find it much easier to use than the maximize/minimize buttons. I’d say I use it most when I want to see the results of a command in the Command Window (like help plot for example).

    -Ken

  3. HoWil replied on August 24th, 2007 at 00:53 UTC :

    Hi Ken,

    i like the maximize feature too, but i would use it more offen if there is a short-key too.

    HoWil

  4. Ken Orr replied on August 27th, 2007 at 15:37 UTC :

    Great idea HoWil! I agree that a shortcut-key would really enhance the value of this feature. We’ll definitely consider this feature request.

    -Ken

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