Comments for File Exchange Pick of the Week

Comment on Change Your Mask, Change Your Look! by Guy Rouleau

Guy Rouleau — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:41:50 +0000

Good job Dave! Nice and clean implementation of the callback!

Comment on Nominate your favorite NEW File Exchange submission by Adam

Adam — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 17:54:51 +0000

I’m a fan of Plot (Big), great for larger data sets:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/40790-plot-big

Comment on Nominate your favorite NEW File Exchange submission by Craig

Craig — Fri, 31 May 2013 15:58:08 +0000

The KML toolbox is excellent. You can easily export data to google earth. And it uses matlab’s oo programing.
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/34694-kml-toolbox-v2-6

Comment on Toggle that Fig by Julian

Julian — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:18:26 +0000

I will be checking out togglefig. Sounds like figure() but with names instead of numbers, which are generally easier for humans, even MATLABbers. Some of Jiro's remarks rang a bell with me: I too have suffered from a proliferation of programmatically generated figures cluttering my workstation. Windows Alt-Tab then just gives you a huge grid of identical figure icons! At the risk of banging my own drum, I made figDefaultKeyPress in response . This extends Windows Ctrl+W for closing a (figure) window with Shift+Ctrl+W to close all figure windows, Shift+Ctrl+E close all figure windows Except this one, Shift+Ctrl+A dock/undock All figure windows. I also get the normal shortcuts, Ctrl+0, etc. to take you to the command line, to continue working when a figure grabs focus.

Comment on Toggle that Fig by Sean de Wolski

Sean de Wolski — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:13:47 +0000

Howdy Brett,

One thing I would like to see in togglefig() is an optional flag for setting the figure’s CloseRequestFcn to [] and back to closereq. I rarely leave figures open due to clutter and sometimes (too often) find that I’ve closed one I want. Setting it so that it doesn’t close resolves this.

Have a great weekend!

Comment on Manage the (Automatic) Naming of Your Figure Windows by bshoelso

bshoelso — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:59:54 +0000

Jonas…also nice! I like the capability of renaming figures after the fact–not based on the most recently executed command. But I can see how your figure-naming scheme could be useful, too.

Comment on Manage the (Automatic) Naming of Your Figure Windows by Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:25:47 +0000

To make sure that all my figures are named, I have an alternative “figure” command (a modified version of “dfig” from the File Exchange) that reads the last command from the command history. So if I call
dfig,plot(time,intensity(:,3))
the figure’s title will be “plot(time,intensity(:,3))”. This way, I always remember what was plotted, or which thresholds I used when tuning an image segmentation.

Comment on Simulate Robots with Sim.I.am by Jiro Doke

Jiro Doke — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:27:44 +0000

@Jose,

You can download the code from the File Exchange entry (link near the beginning of this post).

Comment on Simulate Robots with Sim.I.am by Jose Carlos Sanchez Niño

Jose Carlos Sanchez Niño — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:19:58 +0000

could you give me the matlab code about the movement, i need it for my thesis

Comment on Generate a Smile…Maybe by bshoelso

bshoelso — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:56:33 +0000

@Rameh:
Can you tell me more about how it’s failing? (I assume that you noticed that the word “togglefig” is a hyperlink, and that you installed the function and made sure it’s on your MATLAB path, yes?)
Brett