Doug’s MATLAB Video Tutorials

December 5th, 2006

Automatically generated reports from MATLAB

 This week’s video is covering a relatively new feature of the editor: cell mode. Specifically, I am demonstrating the publication of reports from your code. If you ever need to create documents that have many MATLAB figures and code and would like to be able to update those documents easily, then this four minute video is for you.

By Doug Hull

14:48 UTC | Posted in Format: Video, Level: Basic | Permalink |

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14 Responses to “Automatically generated reports from MATLAB”

  1. Eric M. replied on December 6th, 2006 at 08:17 UTC :

    Doug,
    Love the videos - very helpful. I noticed when you published your document the graphics [membrane(1)] appeared in the HTML file with a white background instead of the grey background. I have not been able to change mine from grey to white. I have tried changing the preferences under “Publishing Images” and the “Copy Options.” I have not found a combination that works. The only thng I have found is setting the figure background to white, but I like the grey background for screen viewing. Any suggestions?

    Eric

  2. Eduard replied on December 6th, 2006 at 09:44 UTC :

    Doug,
    I love the video’s don’t get me wrong but I kind of miss the pick of the week. I understand that you don’t have time and all but maybe you could do a pick of the month and the rest of the time a video.

    Eduard

  3. Doug replied on December 6th, 2006 at 13:01 UTC :

    Eric,

    From our developers:

    “You get one white figure by default. Any more figures you open, you’ll need to change their background color yourself.”

    Thanks for your interest.
    Doug

  4. Eric M. replied on December 7th, 2006 at 13:08 UTC :

    Doug,
    I would have to disagree with your developers comment, unless I misunderstand. ALL of my figures have the grey background unless I do set(0,’DefaultFigureColor’,[1 1 1]) before publishing the script.

    Maybe one of the OPTIONS for publish settings should include something for the figure background. Or at least get the setting from the figure copy options - which includes a setting for figure background.

    Eric

  5. Matthew Simoneau replied on December 7th, 2006 at 17:13 UTC :

    You also need to leave the “Use new figure” preference checked.

  6. Nick Cheilakos replied on December 16th, 2006 at 23:48 UTC :

    This video was fantastic. I didn’t know that Matlab can make this. Could you create an other video?

  7. Mahmoud Kassem replied on December 18th, 2006 at 05:09 UTC :

    Nick,
    There is a demo with MATLAB
    demos/PublishingfromtheEditor_viewlet_swf.html

    A tooltip with the link for the flash video appears when you use Cell Mode in a m file.

  8. Mohd Abubakr replied on January 3rd, 2007 at 14:11 UTC :

    Doug,
    Indeed a very good video. i had no idea about cell mode though i am using MATLAB since 3 years!!… soon i am going to try out this cell mode.
    Great Work buddy.. keep the fires of innovation burning!!

  9. Doug replied on January 3rd, 2007 at 14:17 UTC :

    Mohd,

    Thank you for the complement on the feature. I can not take credit for anything other than showing it off, but I passed your comments on to the people that invented this great feature.

    Thanks,
    Doug

  10. Luke Sparvero replied on February 13th, 2007 at 08:59 UTC :

    Thanks for the video. There is “so much” within Matlab. I am looking for ‘publishing help’. In my experience if the m-file requires ‘inputs’ (using ‘input’) then publishing errors out. Perhaps there is a way around this? I haven’t tried inputdlg( ) yet.

    thanks again

  11. Doug Hull replied on February 13th, 2007 at 11:24 UTC :

    Luke,

    Currently you can not publish functions as a report, but you can publish scripts. Send me a personal e-mail describing what your goals are in publishing a function (documentation, example, report, etc) We are trying to understand what the “Right thing” to do is for functions.

    Doug

  12. Gerald replied on June 10th, 2007 at 14:17 UTC :

    I have problems when i use the publish to word option. The lines inside the axes look well, but the text is terrible. Looks like smooth. I changed the different option in the preferences and I am lost.

    When I do the copy figure option without publish works fine.

    Do you know the reason and /or a solution

    Thanks

  13. Doug replied on June 11th, 2007 at 13:27 UTC :

    Gerald,

    Please send me the code you are trying to publish and I will take a look at it.

    Doug

  14. RM Vinay replied on October 15th, 2007 at 00:07 UTC :

    good work ………….that will surely be helpful

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