Comments on: More dialogs than you can shake a stick at

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:38:53 +0000

@Jonas,

We try to use native or native-like dialogs wherever we can. There are technical limitations on why those dialogs appear so different, but we are working on them. There is no supported way to modify uigetfile to use the other file dialog.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:12:51 +0000

On Macs, uigetfile and uigetdir apparently call different versions of file pickers: only with uigetdir does one get the left-hand panel with the directory shortcuts. It is rather annoying that these shortcuts are not available with uigetfile.

Is there a particular reason why it should not be possible to have the shortcuts available with uigetfile? Is it possible to modify the file picker that is called by uigetfile?

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:27:54 +0000

One of the nice features in msgbox, that I found most users are not aware of, is the fact that msgbox supports Tex markup. This enables messages in a variety/combination of fonts, colors, symbols etc. While documented, it is regrettable that such a useful feature is hidden/implied in the last sentence or two of the msgbox doc page. I would suggest adding a simple example and a screenshot to the doc page, that would immediately show this feature's importance. For those interested, the text properties are a corollary of the fact that under the hood, msgbox is simply a resized figure with hidden axes containing the icon image and text. This text handle can be modified during msgbox creation as indicated in the doc page, or after creation using set(findall(hMsgbox,'type','text'), ...). For example:

hMsgbox = msgbox('simple text');
hMsgText = findall(hMsgbox,'type','text');
newMsgStr = '\color{red}\fontsize{14}\bf\it No !!!';
set(hMsgText, 'Interpreter','tex', 'string',newMsgStr);

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:29:27 +0000

Petter,

I will forward your suggestion on to the message box developers. Remember thought that these dialogs do not have to be modal.

By: Petter

Petter — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:16:05 +0000

My suggest you remove the minimize button on the dialogs in the first groups. Message boxes usually don’t have a minimize button.