Comments on: A great utility for debugging

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:47:09 +0000

Hi Eric,
Thanks for the questions. No, my icon doesn’t change colors; I don’t think there’s a documented way to implement that. (Though if someone can demonstrate that I’m wrong in that regard, I’d be _most_ interested!) The picture on top (above) was from Ken’s blog (Ken & Mike on the MATLAB Desktop). Ken chose to implement two buttons. One can easily be red, the other green. I opted for a toggle instead (lower picture). It’s always red.

And no, setting the appdata does not require administrative privileges. That’s just core MATLAB speak! (Read the doc entry for |setappdata| for more on that.)

Cheers!
Brett

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:44:58 +0000

Brett, Also, do you need to be an Admin on the machine for

setappdata(0,'dmbmute',true);

to work?

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:25:28 +0000

Brett, Does you shortcut icon change depending on the mute status – green when unmuted, red when muted?

By: Brett

Brett — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:29:57 +0000

Hi Corbin, Nice! My version simply stored the mute status in, and queried from, the appdata of the MATLAB root:

muteStatus = getappdata(0,'dbmuteStatus');
if isempty(muteStatus) || ~muteStatus
    setappdata(0,'dbmuteStatus',true);
    dbmute
else
    setappdata(0,'dbmuteStatus',false);
    dbunmute
end

But your version works well, too. If you'll respond directly to my email...HINT:

char(cumsum([98 16 -13 15 0 -70 69 -11 7 -10 7 7 -4 -1 -46 45 -12 19 -12 15 -8 3 -7 8 -69 53 12 -2]))

with your snail mail address, I'd like to send you a small token of our appreciation!

By: Corbin Holland

Corbin Holland — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:09:56 +0000

Here's how I would write the toggle shortcut:

s = dbstatus('-completenames');
mute = true;
for i = 1:length(s)
   if (strcmp(s(i).expression,'false'))
      mute = false;
      break;
   end
end
if (mute)
   dbmute
   disp('Muting all breakpoints');
else
   dbunmute
   disp('Unmuting all breakpoints');
end