Ken & Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

July 30th, 2007

Searching the web while working in the MATLAB Desktop

Sometimes when I am working on a large project with many files and lot of figure windows open, things start to look like a mess. The last thing I want to do it open a web browser to search for something. I find I spend more time figuring out where my windows are than getting code written. One good way to manage this is to use the MATLAB Web browser while working on code (and also to dock those Editor windows and figures). Then when you search Google for code tidbits or search MATLAB Central for file downloads, all of your windows are contained.

To open the web browser, you can just type the following command at the command line:

web www.google.comThen from the Web Browser Desktop menu, select “Dock Web browser”. Now you can rearrange your windows so that you can see all of your work at once and get all of those web browser windows out of your way.

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By Kristin Thomas

Kristin is a developer on the MATLAB Desktop team. She works primarily on the Command Window when she is not throwing herself down a mountain on her snowboard.

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3 Responses to “Searching the web while working in the MATLAB Desktop”

  1. Zhenyuan replied on August 10th, 2007 at 10:57 UTC :

    ok,i got it.

  2. ajeet replied on December 4th, 2007 at 23:57 UTC :

    I tried this but it is shoing some error.The message is MATLAB cannot link to this file or URL:.Can u help me in this regard?

  3. Ken replied on December 5th, 2007 at 07:33 UTC :

    Hey Ajeet,

    You’ll get the following error if you’ve typed the URL incorrectly:

    Warning - File or URL Not Found
    MATLAB cannot link to this file or URL:
    http://mybadurl

    What URL did you try?

    -Ken

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