Comments on: New Release - Simulink R2009a

By: Kai Hartnack

Kai Hartnack — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:25:45 +0000

Thanks for the answer and by the way in general thanks for this blog, I really like it :-)

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:46:58 +0000

@Kai Hartnack - The current Simulink editors do have some limitations based on the platform you use. Our long term goal is to upgrade the editors so all features will work across all platforms. This is part of a major architectural upgrade that has been on-going for a few years. Thanks for letting us know that this is important to you.

By: Kai Hartnack

Kai Hartnack — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:32:17 +0000

…by the way I’m using 2007b…

By: Kai Hartnack

Kai Hartnack — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:02:20 +0000

@ Seth:

Sorry, I checked the Windows version and the feature I’m looking for is called “Model Browser”. I like the Windows Simulink GUI to have the whole model structure as a tree view in my model window. Also, I can easyly manage two or three different models, because I can keep every model in a single window. Using linux version of Simulink every subsystem opens in a new window, no model browser is available.

I already requested this feature at the Mathworks support with the answer “we are working on it”, but it’s been one year now…

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:04:47 +0000

@Kai Hatnack - All of the features listed above are platform independent. I usually work with a Windows machine, so I asked on of my colleagues to try the Model Explorer on his 64-bit Linux box, and he found that it worked at least as far back as R2006a. What release and OS are you using?

By: Kai Hartnack

Kai Hartnack — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:22:55 +0000

are the new features platform-independent? for example, on unix systems there still is no model explorer available what has been in the windows version for many releases now.

By: Mike Katz

Mike Katz — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:02:25 +0000

@S S KIRAN - You’ll get function hints (like Seth just pictured) if you have MATLAB R2008b or newer. Tab completion is also available in the Editor.

Make sure you have these enabled in the preferences:
File -> Preferences -> Keyboard.

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:44:18 +0000

@S S KIRAN - there are already many helpful features in the MATLAB editor, like the function browser and M-Lint. I find these have made writing M-code easier for me.

What specific capabilities you are looking for?

By: S S KIRAN

S S KIRAN — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:11:35 +0000

I feel matlab scripting is hectic job, remembering the syntax is impossible, when can we expect intellisense in .m files