Comments on: Matlab toolstrip – part 2 (ToolGroup App)

By: Rohit

Rohit — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:41:43 +0000

Is there any way to display “Figure’s default Toolbar” when docked to “ToolGroup”? as it does when you use Matlab’s default docking option.

By: Thomas Satterly

Thomas Satterly — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:49:14 +0000

Thanks for writing this series, I’ve found using the ToolGroup very enjoyable in new lightweight apps. One issue/annoyance I’ve noticed is that conditional tab groups (using the addClientTabGroup() method) will remove and re-add themselves every time a new figure is selected that uses the tab group. This creates a “flashing” effect as the view is rendered during the removal and addition process. For reference, I’m using Matlab R2016b. Is this a unique issue, or are other people seeing the same effects?

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:15:28 +0000

@Arash – I plan to discuss client layups in a future post of this mini-series. In the meantime you can play with this:

jDesktop = com.mathworks.mlservices.MatlabDesktopServices.getDesktop;
dockType = jDesktop.TILED;  % NONE=0, MAXIMIZED=1, TILED=2, FLOATING=3
panelSize = java.awt.Dimension(2,1);  % 2 columns, 1 row  (leave =[] for non-TILED)
jDesktop.setDocumentArrangement(hToolGroup.Name, dockType, panelSize);

By: Arash Marashian

Arash Marashian — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:46:34 +0000

Hi, thanks for your good information,
I have a question here:
how can we set a specific initial view model?
For example, I want to plot step resp. and impulse resp. together in one window (as we have “left/right” in the view tab).

By: Henry

Henry — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 08:39:22 +0000

Hi Yair

Thanks for your answer. Maybe MATHWORKS want to prevent their own APPs in the matlab. If they can be deployed, all the Apps can be used without license. But it is very pity, otherwise, matlab can build very wonderful apps to users.

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:13:51 +0000

@Henry - for some unknown reason, MathWorks have chosen to intentionally prevent figure docking in compiled applications. There used to be a workaround for this, but it is no longer working (in other words, MathWorks have closed the loophole) in recent Matlab releases.

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 19:08:44 +0000

@Tanguy – thanks for the typo correction, now fixed.

By: Tanguy

Tanguy — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 18:26:37 +0000

Hello Yair,

minor correction (on the part you recently corrected, sorry):

% hTabGroup2 = matlab.ui.internal.desktop.TabGroup();
% should be :
hTabGroup2 = matlab.ui.internal.toolstrip.TabGroup();

Other than that great article. Just a note, for MATLAB R2016a, the “addClientTabGroup” method to add a specific tab linked with a figure has to be called after the figure is attached, so for this version the code becomes:

% Add the figure and tabs to the ToolGroup
hToolGroup.addFigure(hFig2);
hToolGroup.addClientTabGroup(hFig2, hTabGroup2);

Everything works fine after that.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 06:20:53 +0000

Hi, Yair

Thanks for your introduction of this toolstrip. if this toolstrip can be deploy as a standalone application, it will be amazing.
it is success to deploy the ToolGroupApp.exe (save all your commands as ToolGroupApp.m and ‘mcc -m ToolGroupApp’), but when running it, the two figures will jump out as two windows, not dock as two cilents in the toolgroup.
is it possible to solve this problem, so that the wonderful toolstrip can demploy as a exe with beatuiful user interface?

looking forward to your reply

best
Henry

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 15:06:47 +0000

@Alex – thanks, fixed

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:48:09 +0000

Hi Yair,

“hTabGroup2 = TabGroup();” in section “Adding clients (docked figures) to the ToolGroup” should be
“hTabGroup2 = matlab.ui.internal.toolstrip.TabGroup();”

Greetings Alex