Comments on: Printing hyperlinks to the Command Window

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:52:57 +0000

Thanks for fielding that one, Yair.

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:08:57 +0000

Jimmy - if you mean that you wish to include hyperlinks in your function’s help comment, that will display asa hyperlink in the Command Window when you type “help myfunc”, then yes - simply include the hyperlink in your help comment, like so:

function result = myfunc(varargin)
% MYFUNC - this function does A B C …
%
% See also: MathWorks File Exchange
%

Yair

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:41:11 +0000

Is there any way to include hyperlinks in a comment, such as the standard help at the beginning of a function?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:58:33 +0000

Rick,

Thank you for the suggestion. If you have a specific use case in mind, feel free to email us with the details.

Mike

By: Rick Candell

Rick Candell — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:19:43 +0000

It is very desirable to be able to print colored text to the command window. Why has this feature not yet been implemented? It would also be nice in a matlab notebook, but I found the notebook to be very flakey. I would prefer to have color text in the command window.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:00:44 +0000

Yuri,

It is not possible to change the text color in the Command Window. You can get errors or hyperlinks (whose color is settable in the preferences) but these have additional semantics that are not desirable for other uses.

By: Yuri

Yuri — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:15:41 +0000

Tim, Kristin,

Isn’t there another way to change the text color in the command window?

Obviously, Tim’s solution is not powerful.

Yuri

By: Tim Davis

Tim Davis — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:20:16 +0000

I was just printing values, and needed a do-nothing link, then “matlab:why” is the coolest do-nothing function out there :-)

By: Kristin

Kristin — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:25:23 +0000

Hey Tim,

In your example above, you could link the variables to disp the values, then if you click on them you are at least getting useful info.

x = rand (10,1) ;
for k = 1:10
  if (x (k) %lt; .5)
    fprintf (’%8.5f\n’, x (k)) ;
  else
    fprintf (’%8.5f\n’, x (k), x(k)) ;
  end
end

Obviously, this would work better if you were printing something other than the values.

By: Tim Davis

Tim Davis — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:23:43 +0000

Note that HREF= is recognized by regular web browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, and even the MATLAB built-in “web”), so changing href= to HREF= disables only the hypertext link in the MATLAB Command Window, but leaves it as a valid link everywhere else.