Comments on: Feeling colorful?

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:51:29 +0000

Dipayan - My cprintf utility was today uploaded to the File Exchange ( http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24093 ) and does exactly what you requested: the ability to specify the text color (and/or underline) of formatted text displayed in the Command Window.

Note that this submission relies on undocumented functionality, so for a supported and more robust solution we’ll need to wait for TMW’s desktop team to provide an official solution in some future release.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:13:22 +0000

Is it possible to change the matlab interface border colors (currently everything is gray)? I like all my backgrounds black with bright text and the borders are the one thing that still can’t dim at all.

Also, a nice touch would be to allow background watermarks/pictures for the editor or command line.

Thanks

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:37:41 +0000

Jennifer,

We don’t have a mechanism for changing the text selection color on Linux. However the default should be white text with a blue background for the selection.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:15:11 +0000

How do you change the color of selection highlight? I like to work with a black background and white text and on a linux machine, anytime I select text (in the editor or command window), the selected area is shown in black — so I can’t see what has been selected. In windows, changing the OS desktop themes and restarting matlab will control the selection color, but no such luck on linux.

By: Dipayan Maiti

Dipayan Maiti — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:59:37 +0000

Mike. Thanks a lot!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:49:38 +0000

Dipayan,

There is no MATLAB function to change the text color. In addition, if you use the Preferences to change the font colors, you will change it for all instances for that text, i.e. you can’t control the color for just a piece of text.

By: Dipayan Maiti

Dipayan Maiti — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:36:02 +0000

Hi,
How can I change the text colors using a matlab function? I want to change the text color in the command prompt. I will be using disp or fprintf to output my text to the standard output (say command window).
-Thanks,
-D

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:09:29 +0000

Hi Jon,

You can change the color of the highlighted cell by doing the following:

1) Go to File -> Preferences -> Editor/Debugger -> Display
2) In the ‘Cell display options’ section, select the desired color in the color picker next to the ‘Highlight cells’ checkbox.

-Ken

By: Jon Oppelaar

Jon Oppelaar — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:13:08 +0000

is there a way to change the color of the highlighted cells?

By: Kristin

Kristin — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:36:12 +0000

Thanks Katie. We will consider that for a future release.