Comments on: More Mac-like tabs

By: Clement VAL

Clement VAL — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:07:12 +0000

Just a short comment on Matlab integration on the Mac (I just installed R2010a on my Macbook) : what’s the most annoying thing on a “small” screen (even though 1280*800 shouldn’t be considered as such a small resolution) is all the wasted space, compared to what’s actually usable to work (editor, command line…).
This is partly caused by all the space lost duplicating the menu bar, but also by the incredibly thick width of the borders between different desktop components.
Borders of side panels in Apple’s apps are just one pixel, and it’s perfect. Here, it looks like they are something like 10px large, way too much IMHO.

By: Dave X

Dave X — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:18:04 +0000

I’ve been having a problem with Matlab R2009a on a Mac 10.5.8 and it occasionally making the figure window sticky, or always-on-top, even when other applications are active. It is an intermittent problem, and very frustrating. It was buggin me for the last 30 minutes, but now that I’m writing here, it seems to have resolved itself. I’m not a big mac user, and there are enough things about the mac interface that drive me crazy, that I’m not sure if this is somehow designed. The last little bits I was messing around with were:

set(gcf,’Position’,[0 0 1024 800],’PaperPositionMode’,'auto’,'InvertHardCopy’,'off’)
print(‘-dpng’, ‘-r0′, ‘windcomparison3panel.png’)

…but I was doing that during and after my always-on-top window.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:39:17 +0000

Hi Siddharth, There isn't currently any way to move the docking controls. Feel free to submit an enhancement request. -Ken

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:18:27 +0000

Is there any way to move the position of the docking controls (or eliminate them through some configuration setting) on a Mac ?
I would like to move the controls in line with the “File” menu, instead of being on the same line as the other toolbars such as the ‘Cell Mode’ controls. (More Linux or Windows-like, if you will)

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:50:52 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Your comment is timely, as we’ve just posted about MATLAB support on Snow Leopard. As I’ve said before, The MathWorks is committed to enhancing the experience of MATLAB on the Mac. As I mentioned in this blog entry, I spend much of my time tweaking MATLAB’s user interface to make it more Mac like and there are many others focused on MATLAB’s Mac performance and general OS X integration. The overall user experience of MATLAB on the Mac is something we’re working very hard on.

It would be helpful for us if you could articulate what you mean by “play well together”. What is bothering you the most about MATALB on the Mac? We can factor this type of information into how we prioritize the various tasks involved in our Mac-ification of MATLAB.

-Ken

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:50:10 +0000

I love Matlab and I’m going to get a Mac soon. I wish they would play well together.

What’s the best way for us to “lobby” Mathworks to get Matlab to work well with a Mac, besides posting here?

As Apple’s market share increases, especially among young academic types, Matlab’s reputation for not working well with Mac’s might have a serious impact on Mathwork’s bottom line.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:28:46 +0000

Hans,
These two issues are at the top of our list. We’ve been working with our vendors to get these resolved. We’ll let you know when these are fixed and on what platforms as soon as that version of MATLAB is released.

Thank you for your feedback and continued patience.

By: Hans Meier

Hans Meier — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:00:21 +0000

I would also like to encourage MATLAB developers to start working on bringing the menu bar back to the top of the screen (Mac style).

#7, the window focus problem did not get fixed. That’s probably an even more serious issue than the menu bar. What’s the status on this bug?

By: Tom Lawton

Tom Lawton — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:49:38 +0000

Many thanks Ken!
I wonder if there’s any way they can pull, bury or robots.txt the old page? It had me worried!
Cheers, Tom

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:18:29 +0000

Hi Tom,

Glad you like the new tabs on the Mac.

As far as Googling…we don’t have any control over what Google hands back to you when you do a search. For some reason, it’s giving you our R13 documentation. Here’s the latest doc on installing MATLAB on Mac:

http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/base/install/mac/macinstallguide.html

-Ken