R2011b is now available. You can learn more about new features here, including some videos. Focusing solely on MATLAB, I wanted to let you know what some of my favorite new features are.
- Spreadsheet import tool for selecting and loading mixed numeric and textual data
- matfile function to load or save portions of an array in a MAT-file
- griddedInterpolant object for more control, better performance, and memory efficiency in interpolation for gridded data
- Exchange of multidimensional arrays and cell arrays directly between MATLAB and Microsoft .NET
and perhaps my favorite one:
- Automatic variable and function renaming in the MATLAB Editor
Your Favorite R2011b Feature?
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This is good news:
MPEG-4 and MOV file support in VideoReader on Microsoft® Windows 7
Getting round this missing functionality used to be a bit of a palaver:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/252119#652168
I look forward to trying it. Now all that’s needed is support for the format in VideoWriter.
“Automatic variable and function renaming in the MATLAB Editor” feature is definetely my favorite one.
2 others things I would like to mention :
I didn’t find any explanation within the R2011b doc about the new feature “Startup Accelerator for faster MATLAB startup on Windows”. How can we check that it works fine? By running matlab.exe -timing ?
Another feature that I noticed is
sets the function name hist in BOLD .
Idem , I didn’t find any information about it.
Aurélien
@Aurélien:
Information on the Startup Accelerator is provided in the Admin guide:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/base/install/license/bs67yde-1.html
Good eyes on the boldface function name in help! We decided this feature pretty much spoke for itself, that it didn’t need a release note. For those who haven’t noticed yet, when you ask for help on a function, we list the function name in bold with correct capitalization (typically all lower case) instead of listing it in all capital letters.
Enjoy the release :)
@Scott : Merci beaucoup !
Just spotted in the R2012a Prerelease Release Notes:
“Creation of MPEG-4 H.264 files for Web video publishing with VideoWriter on Windows 7″.
Following on from my earlier comment, this is more good news!