Comments on: Interactive web pages in MATLAB, part 1

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:38:32 +0000

Many thanks, that solves the problem. (I was using “open” so didn’t see this option.) Best, Christian.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:05:09 +0000

Christian, You can open a new browser by passing the -new argument to the web command. See the web command reference page for a full explanation of the web command's syntax.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:42:55 +0000

Hi Mike,
thanks for this excellent blog post!
There is a tiny feature that would make my application a lot more convenient: at the moment ist does not seem to be possible to have several matlab browser windows open at the same time. Each time you open a new html document, it never gives you a new window, but only opens it in the old window. – Is there a workaround for this? (If not, I’d suggest this feature for a future release of matlab.)
Looking forward to replies, with best wishes, Christian.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:52:30 +0000

Yvan, You can use the urlread to get the text content of a web page. It is up to you to parse that text to extract the meaningful data.

By: Rich Yvan

Rich Yvan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:39:25 +0000

Hi Ken and Mike,

I’m interested in download some data for the html site, but not using the ftp server.

for example, using this site:
http://swdcwww.kugi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dst_realtime/index.html

into, you’ll see the icons ’01′, ’02′…. in each ’2007′, ’2008′… lines.
ok,

the ftp form is:

>tmw = ftp(‘ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov’);
>ascii(tmw);
>cd(tmw,’/STP/GEOMAGNETIC_DATA/INDICES/KP_AP/’);
>filename = mget(tmw,’2006′);

but I don’t need to use ftp.

I need to make the same (in matlab) with the html site.

Please….
if you get the solution, could you get in touch with me?

navivacu@gmail.com
Yvan.

thanks…

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:48:42 +0000

Jen,

This is not possible. With some programming, you can run MATLAB code in the back end of a web-based UI, but you can not deploy a GUI directly to a Google page.

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:17:21 +0000

I am sort of new to matlab and I just make my first GUI… Im unsure if this is question relates to the topic, but I need to Place my GUI on a website for all to use. Does anyone know how I might be able to go about that? By the way, I don’t know Java or HTML, im using googlepages. Thanks for the help.

By: Tim Davis

Tim Davis — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:06:59 +0000

“why” is not undocumented. Just see “doc why” or “help why”. No surprise there. It’s no less documented than the “logo” command.

No need to get upset about a demo function that some might find useful. In real computing, sure, nobody uses “why”, but neither do they use “logo” either. Both serve their purpose of being useful demos.

By: Tim Davis

Tim Davis — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:56:53 +0000

The “matlab:…” protocol only works in the MATLAB web browser.

Have you considered writing a browser plugin for Firefox, IE, etc that could parse the matlab: protocol? The plugin would of course be MATLAB itself, and thus couldn’t be free. But if I have MATLAB, and am running Firefox and come across a matlab: link … why not fire up MATLAB when I click it?

Regarding the “why” command … This is not an easter egg; it has a long history. It’s been in MATLAB since the beginning. The “why” command serves as a nice example of how to write a finite-state machine in M. It’s not used unless you explicitly call it, so it doesn’t stand in the way of the real functions in MATLAB. There’s no game-playing in the MATLAB source code. Consider it a demo of “rand”. Is “why” any different than the “life” command, for example?

By: hUser

hUser — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:17:47 +0000

I see the web feature not as an inferior feature at all.

Reports that matlab has works really well in the web browser such as the profiler, depfun, TODO report, for example.

I have used these tools as jumping off points and built my own tools that would be difficult to do in a traditional GUI.