Comments on: Setting the Matlab desktop layout programmatically

By: Dominik

Dominik — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:47:32 +0000

Dear Yair, thank you for all those helpful matlab secrets! I was wondering how to arrange figures in my tiled custom desktop group. The group I create like that:

desktop.setDocumentArrangement(groupname, 2, java.awt.Dimension(nXPanes, nYPanes));

And the figures I associate via:

 set(get(handle(o.figure), 'javaframe'), 'GroupName', groupname);

Now I would ideally like to control in which pane the figures are created and, possibly be able to create tabbed figures within one pane. I would be delighted about any hint. Thank you!

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:50:16 +0000

In reply to Anderson. @Anderson:

close(matlab.desktop.editor.findOpenDocument('myMatlabFunction.m'))  % close editor file

close(findall(0, 'type','figure', 'name','My figure'))  % close a specific figure window

jDesktop = com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance;
jDesktop.closeGroup('Figures');  % close the Figures container

By: Anderson

Anderson — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:40:30 +0000

Hi,

Is there a command similar to desktop.closeCommandWindow, so that I can close/open editor window and figures window?

Thank you

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:35:08 +0000

In reply to Sky. nice :-)

By: Sky

Sky — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:23:29 +0000

This post inspired me to make a small utility (now on the File Exchange) that I personally use very often and find quite useful. Hopefully others will too. Thank you for the post. I'd love to get feedback on the file if you have any for me.

By: Troykapoika

Troykapoika — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:06:09 +0000

I would like to know if there is any way to organize (remove) layouts programmatically? I have played around with uiinspect looking for the calls to organize and remove layouts, but I haven’t been too successful. Also, do you know if there is anyway to share layouts between computers and load them into MATLAB without having to restart MATLAB?

Thanks!

Troy