{"id":58,"date":"2006-10-11T14:42:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/?p=58"},"modified":"2017-09-07T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:13:52","slug":"my-working-matlab-desktop-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2006\/10\/11\/my-working-matlab-desktop-layout\/","title":{"rendered":"My Working MATLAB Desktop Layout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:mwsh=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/namespace\/mcode\/v1\/syntaxhighlight.dtd\" class=\"content\">\r\n   <introduction>\r\n      <p>A customer asked me recently to show him my preferred MATLAB desktop arrangement so I thought I would show and discuss my current set up. \r\n      <\/p>\r\n   <\/introduction>\r\n   <h3>Contents<\/h3>\r\n   <div>\r\n      <ul>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#1\">Components That I Dock<\/a><\/li>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#3\">Additional Component I Use in the Desktop<\/a><\/li>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#4\">Other Components I Use Frequently<\/a><\/li>\r\n         <li><a href=\"#5\">Customized Configurations<\/a><\/li>\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n   <\/div>\r\n   <h3>Components That I Dock<a name=\"1\"><\/a><\/h3>\r\n   <p>Here's a picture of my desktop, compressed so you can still read the names of the components that I generally keep open.<\/p>\r\n   <p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/loren\/58\/2006bDesktop.png\"> <\/p>\r\n   <p>As you can see, I keep quite a few components open and docked in the desktop.  These components are viewers for:<\/p>\r\n   <div>\r\n      <ul>\r\n         <li>Command Window<\/li>\r\n         <li>Workspace<\/li>\r\n         <li>Command History<\/li>\r\n         <li>Current Directory<\/li>\r\n         <li>Help<\/li>\r\n         <li>Editor<\/li>\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n   <\/div>\r\n   <p>Why these components?  Well, I'm usually looking at, modifying, writing, and running code.  I find the Workspace useful for\r\n      quickly seeing array sizes (especially when vectors are involved).  After playing around in the Command Window for a while,\r\n      I gather some statements from the Command History as the first draft of an M-file.  I am always using Help to find out details\r\n      of syntax.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <h3>Additional Component I Use in the Desktop<a name=\"3\"><\/a><\/h3>\r\n   <div>\r\n      <ul>\r\n         <li>File Comparisons<\/li>\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n   <\/div>\r\n   <p>I use the File Comparisons when I am making a sequence of changes (saving intermediate versions to new files).  I also use\r\n      comparisons to look at code that might produce the same answers but run with very different timings.  Of course, if that's\r\n      so, I then move on to the Profiler (see the next section).\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <h3>Other Components I Use Frequently<a name=\"4\"><\/a><\/h3>\r\n   <p>I have a few other components that I use all the time, but not generally docked with the desktop.  They are:<\/p>\r\n   <div>\r\n      <ul>\r\n         <li>Figures<\/li>\r\n         <li>Web Browser<\/li>\r\n         <li>Profiler<\/li>\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n   <\/div>\r\n   <p>I find it helpful to get a picture of my data rather than just looking at the numbers.  The Web Browser shows my current document\r\n      published.  And when I am checking into a performance curiosity, I use the Profiler.  I find it generally convenient to have\r\n      these windows outside the desktop, often so I can control their sizes and view most of more windows simultaneously.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <h3>Customized Configurations<a name=\"5\"><\/a><\/h3>\r\n   <p>Did you know that you can also customize and save particular component arrangements?  I do this for cases in which I want\r\n      less window clutter, and perhaps to emphasize a particular point in a discussion.  In one example, I sometimes dock figure\r\n      windows.  When I run MATLAB, I can select different customized desktop arrangements from the desktop menu. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2006\/10\/11\/my-working-matlab-desktop-layout\/#respond\">I'd love to hear from you<\/a> about the components and layouts you find most productive for your own work.\r\n   <\/p>\r\n   <p style=\"text-align: right; font-size: xx-small; font-weight:lighter;   font-style: italic; color: gray\"><br>\r\n      Published with MATLAB&reg; 7.3<br><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<!--\r\n##### SOURCE BEGIN #####\r\n%% My Working MATLAB Desktop Layout\r\n% A customer asked me recently to show him my preferred MATLAB \r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/access\/helpdesk\/help\/techdoc\/matlab_env\/ desktop>\r\n% arrangement so I thought I would show and discuss my current set up.\r\n% Here is\r\n% <https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/access\/helpdesk\/help\/techdoc\/matlab_env\/index.html?\/access\/helpdesk\/help\/techdoc\/matlab_env\/f1-32896.html some documentation> \r\n% about the desktop with more features than I mention here.  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After playing around in\r\n% the Command Window for a while, I gather some statements from the Command\r\n% History as the first draft of an M-file.  I am always using Help to find\r\n% out details of syntax.\r\n%% Additional Component I Use in the Desktop\r\n%\r\n% * File Comparisons\r\n%\r\n% I use the File Comparisons when I am making a sequence of changes (saving\r\n% intermediate versions to new files).  I also use comparisons to look at\r\n% code that might produce the same answers but run with very different\r\n% timings.  Of course, if that's so, I then move on to the Profiler (see\r\n% the next section).\r\n%% Other Components I Use Frequently\r\n% I have a few other components that I use all the time, but not generally\r\n% docked with the desktop.  They are:\r\n%\r\n% * Figures\r\n% * Web Browser\r\n% * Profiler\r\n%\r\n% I find it helpful to get a picture of my data rather than just looking at\r\n% the numbers.  The Web Browser shows my current document published.  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When I run MATLAB, I can\r\n% select different customized desktop arrangements from the desktop menu.\r\n% <p=?58#respond I'd love to hear from you> about the components and\r\n% layouts you find most productive for your own work.\r\n##### SOURCE END #####\r\n-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n   \r\n      A customer asked me recently to show him my preferred MATLAB desktop arrangement so I thought I would show and discuss my current set up. \r\n      \r\n   \r\n   Contents\r\n  ... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/2006\/10\/11\/my-working-matlab-desktop-layout\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/loren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}