Ken & Mike on the MATLAB Desktop

September 29th, 2008

If your looking for a quick way to come up to speed on new features, a new release or even a functional area, I highly recommend you take a look at the MATLAB demo videos available on the web and linked to from the MATLAB Help Browser. With the release of MATLAB 7.7 (R2008b) drawing nigh, I figured this would be a good time to remind everyone of this great resource.

To bring up the demos, start MATLAB, press the Help menu item and select Product Help. After the help browser pops up, select the Demos tab:

Alternatively, you can browse the demos directly from the web.

In this YouTube age we live in, watching videos is so apropos! Here are some videos I recommend checking out:

Development Environment updates in 7.6 (R2008a)
Object-Oriented Programming
Developing Code Rapidly with Cells
Publishing from the Editor
Doug’s MATLAB Video Tutorials (the newest member in our MATLAB blog family)

When the MATLAB 7.7 is released, we’ll post a run-down of many of the new features and I’ll be sure we include links to the demos.

By Ken Orr

Ken is a developer on the MATLAB Desktop team. He loves the art of graphic design as well as developing visually pleasing user interfaces - he's one of those 'crazy' Mac guys!

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5 Responses to “So many demos, so little time”

1. Stephen Colona replied on September 29th, 2008 at 08:30 UTC :
   

   Do you think the new release will come out before the PreRelease expires?

   Thanks.

2. Mike replied on September 29th, 2008 at 08:52 UTC :
   

   Stephen,

   We cannot give an exact date as to when the next version of MATLAB will be released.

3. Steve Eddins replied on September 29th, 2008 at 09:40 UTC :
   

   Stephen—You can extend your R2008b Prerelease license by choosing the Help -> Licensing -> Update Current Licenses menu option.

4. Rich Messeder replied on September 30th, 2008 at 16:29 UTC :
   

   I have a few comments that I’m trying to find the right place for.

   One is that when I press the Tab key to go from the Name field to the E-mail field, my browser gets redirected.

   Now for the real stuff. In R2007a and R2008a, the Current Directory date format can’t be set to my desktop preferences (Windows XP Pro) or my personal choice: yyyy.mm.dd and 24-hour clock. Do I get the impression that ISO formats are not welcome @ mathworks? Why has the product gotten to this stage with such a defect? The current format is annoying with its AM and PM and times waving back and forth because there are no leading 0s on the dates or times.

5. Ken replied on October 1st, 2008 at 08:01 UTC :
   

   Hi Rich,

   We have a bug report on the first issue you mention. As for the Command Window time-stamp format, please submit an enhancement request here.

   -Ken

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