Comments on: New and Updated Desktop Features in R2009a

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:12:14 +0000

Rudolph - You can indeed dock windows into separate docking groups (containers), including new user-defined groups. You can then move any of your containers to the secondary screen.

See my setFigDocGroup utility on the Matlab File Exchange: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/16650

Note that this relies on undocumented and unsupported Matlab features which may possibly fail in some Matlab releases.

Yair

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:44:51 +0000

fayez,

We’ll be talking about Emacs integration next week — stay tuned. What do you mean by “tab completions are not allowed”?

I’m not sure what you mean by “Now my Mac machine using MATLAB looks like a PC using Windows” — the look of MATLAB hasn’t changed *that* much between R2008a/b and R2009b, and it certainly doesn’t look any more like Windows than it did.

-Ken

By: fayez Gebali

fayez Gebali — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:40:39 +0000

New release 2009b to me is frustrating compared to 2008. I have no emacs interface anymore in command window or editor. Even tab completions are not allowed.

Now my MAC machine using matlab looks like a PC using windows. I wish I did not delete my R2008.

Now I open an outside emacs editor for matlab files but I am stuck with the command window.

By: Rudolph de Jager

Rudolph de Jager — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:36:42 +0000

I’ve seen some people mentioning a requirement of having 2 desktop windows. Main purpose is to work on 2 screens and have some windows docked into the one container (desktop window) and others on the other screen.

All responses were that it is not possible. Could it become possible?

By: Daniel Armyr

Daniel Armyr — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:26:09 +0000

Publish to PDF has been a long-time request of mine. I am looking forward to finally getting rid of the clunky HTML with a whole tail of image files tagging along.

As for the file exchange, if you did it right, I think it will be one of the great features. If not, it will quickly end up on the rather large pile of “ideas that were good as such, but ultimately weren’t helpful”.

–DA

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:19:02 +0000

Jody,

That bit of code will stop working in a future release of MATLAB.

By: Jody Klymak

Jody Klymak — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:35:56 +0000

On Loren’s blog, Daniel had a suggested implementation of this using Java….

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:43:51 +0000

Hi Jody,

Your request is a good one. In fact, your not the first to ask for this feature (see comments here and here).

Thanks for the feedback.

-Ken

By: Jody Klymak

Jody Klymak — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:39:54 +0000

As a potential feature request…

I was mentioning over at Loren’s blog that it would be nice if there were some way to reopen a specific set of files in the editor. That would allow one to easily switch between “Projects” in the editor. i.e. something like “Save Editor State” and Load Editor State. Perhaps this already exists and I don’t know about it.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:04:42 +0000

Thanks Daniel. I hope it will make writing your blog easier.