Comments on: I Came, I Saw, I Created my own Desktop Layout

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:53:40 +0000

@Ben and Peter P. – saving and switching layouts can indeed be done programmatically. However, as Mike mentioned this is not supported and so might break in future Matlab releases, as it has indeed in the past.

With this warning in mind, you are welcome to read the details here:
http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/setting-the-matlab-desktop-layout-programmatically/

Yair

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:14:04 +0000

Ben,

No there is no supported way to do this right now.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:21:56 +0000

Can I use a script to switch between Desktop Layouts, i.e., is it possible to do it without using the mouse?

By: ghzhao

ghzhao — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:57:33 +0000

Can I add some menuitems of my own?
Can I add some new browsers?
Can I control the interface of matlab freely?

By: Peter P.

Peter P. — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:33:57 +0000

Is there a possibility to open a predefined layout “My Layout” by the command line? I already tried to do it with the commands of
“com.mathworks.mlservices.MatlabDesktopServices”, but I couldn’t find an appropriate function.
Thank you very much for reply,
Peter

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:30:09 +0000

Jason,

There are some limitations but layout files can be shared between MATLAB versions. When you save a layout, say naming it “My Layout”, a file named “My LayoutMATLABLayout.xml” is written to the MATLAB prefdir. You can manually copy this file to the prefdir of another release. In fact when you install a new release these files are automatically carried forward. The limitation is that if you create a layout under 2007a which places components in the newly introduced minimized or maximized states then 2006b won’t know how to interpret the layout file.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:16:42 +0000

Dan,

I don’t know of any way to make the deploytool rembember its location in the current release (2007a) but have you checked out the 2007b prerelease…

By: jason

jason — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:19:40 +0000

Are the desktop layouts easily transferable between matlab versions or between computers? I use both 2006b and 2007a (because of some bugs) on a laptop (small models) and a desktop (larger, longer models). I’d love to be able to copy (rsync or unison) a single file between all four matlab installations.

By: Dan Kominsky

Dan Kominsky — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 12:34:37 +0000

Kristin,
I have a question regarding the desktop layouts. Why can’t the deploytool remember its location in a desktop layout? Or, is there a way to make it do so? I would appreciate this being addressed at some point.

Thanks,
Dan