Matlab
The software provided on this page has been tested with Matlab version 5, and 6 on HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows (MinGW) and Matlab version 7 on Windows.
A history of my Matlab Central File Exchange submissions can be found here.
Matlab Widget Toolkit
MTk is a high-level command line interface for creating graphical user interfaces using Handle Graphics. MTk is for people who don't need a guide to write graphical user interfaces.
Below is the code of MTk's Tab Panel demo. As you can see, only three commands are needed to build a whole GUI.
f = mtk('figure', 0, '0x0', ...
'Name', 'MTk Demo: Tab Panel', ...
'Resize', 'off', ...
'Visible', 'off');
mtk('render', f, ...
{'vbox' ...
'Margin' 16 ...
'Padding' 16 ...
{'tabs' ...
{'tab' ...
'Caption' 'First' ...
{'vbox' ...
'Margin' 8 ...
{'text' ...
'String' 'Hello world!'}}} ...
{'tab' ...
'Caption' 'Second' ...
{'vbox' ...
'Margin' 8 ...
{'text' ...
'String' 'Good by sailor!'}}} ...
{'tab' ...
'Caption' 'Third' ...
{'box' ...
'Margin' 8 ...
{'tabs' ...
{'tab' ...
'Caption' 'Fourth' ...
{'vbox' ...
'Margin' 8 ...
{'group' ...
'Caption' 'Fruits:' ...
{'vbox' ...
'Margin' 8 ...
{'checkbox' ...
'String' 'Apples'} ...
{'checkbox' ...
'String' 'Bananas'}}}}} ...
{'tab' ...
'Caption' 'Fifth' ...
{'vbox' ...
'Margin' 8 ...
{'text' ...
'String' 'The end.'}}}}}}} ...
{'hbox' ...
'Pack' 'center' ...
{'pushbutton' ...
'String' 'Close' ...
'Callback' 'delete(gcbf);'}}});
set(f, 'Visible', 'on');
Here is the result. Isn't that nice.
Parse Command Options
The getopt command parses options from an argument list. The aim
is to be close to GNU long options functionality, and beyond.
Here is an example, for how to use getopt.
function foo(varargin)
% Initialize options.
opt = getopt(5);
for ind = 1:numel(opt)
switch ind
case 1
opt(ind).name = '-flag';
opt(ind).type = 'flag';
case 2
opt(ind).name = '-mode';
opt(ind).type = 'char';
opt(ind).choices = {'box', 'line'};
opt(ind).values = [4, 2];
opt(ind).value = 4;
opt(ind).assign = 1;
case 3
opt(ind).name = '-color';
opt(ind).type = 'color';
case 4
opt(ind).name = '-cursor';
opt(ind).type = 'cursor';
case 5
opt(ind).name = '-fullcross';
opt(ind).type = 'alias';
opt(ind).index = 4;
opt(ind).value = 'fullcrosshair';
otherwise
error('Should not happen');
end
end
% Parse options from argument list.
[opt, arg] = getopt(opt, varargin{:});
Rubber-Band Selection
Select a figure or axes region.
This rubber-band command has a lot of customization options, for example, rubber-band mode (box, x, y, line), optional display of cursor coordinates, free selection of color, line style, marker symbol, and figure cursor, axes expansion, choice of return values (points, vectors, rectangle), and the type of rendering for animated objects.
The rubberband command depends on the getopt command (see
above).
Here is an example for how to it.
x = linspace(0, 2 * pi);
subplot(2, 1, 1);
plot(x, sin(x));
axis tight;
subplot(2, 1, 2);
plot(x, cos(x));
axis tight;
[p1, p2] = rubberband('-mode=x', '-coord', '-expand=y');
Text File Printing
Convert text file for printing.
The textpr command converts a text file for printing. Paper
size, page layout, n-up printing, basic formatting, and output file
format can be customized via command line options.
The textpr command depends on the getopt command (see
above) and a Ghostscript executable (like the one shipped with older
versions of Matlab).
Configuration Utilities
The m-config package provides GNU Autoconf macros checking
for Matlab features and platform incompatibilities. Documentation and a
complete example project are included in the package.
See the Matlab Configuration Utilities manual, for more details.
m-config is free software and distributed under the GNU
General Public License.
Directory Stack
The m-dirs package provides the directory stack commands as known
from various Unix shells for Matlab. Available Matlab commands are
dirs, pushd, and popd.
Command names and usage is equal to the Unix shell commands:
>> pwd
ans =
/tmp
>> pushd /usr/bin
/usr/bin
/tmp
>> pwd
ans =
/usr/bin
>> popd
/tmp
>> pwd
ans =
/tmp
m-dirs is free software and distributed under the GNU
General Public License.
Regular Expressions
The m-regex package provides POSIX regular expressions for
Matlab. Available Matlab commands are regcomp, regnsub,
regexec, regfree, regerror, and regnomatch.
Command names and usage is equal to the POSIX functions:
pattern = '[aeiou]+';
[regex, code] = regcomp(pattern, 'x');
if code ~= 0
error(regerror(code, regex));
end
fprintf('Pattern `%s'' has %d sub-expression(s)\n', ...
pattern, regnsub(regex));
strings = {'foo', 'bar', '42'};
for i = 1:length(strings)
string = strings{i};
[match, code] = regexec(regex, string);
if code == regnomatch
fprintf('Pattern `%s'' does not match `%s''\n', ...
pattern, string);
elseif code ~= 0
error(regerror(code, regex));
else
substr = string(match(1).so:match(1).eo-1);
fprintf('Pattern `%s'' matches `%s'' in `%s''\n', ...
pattern, substr, string);
end
end
regfree(regex);
m-regex is free software and distributed under the GNU
General Public License. If your system has no native support for POSIX
regular expressions, m-regex uses the GNU equivalent which
is distributed under the GNU Library General Public License.
User Interface
The m-ui package provides
wrappers for Matlab's uicontrol and uimenu
family of commands. It simplifies building Matlab graphical user
interfaces a lot (in case you can not or do not like to use
guide):
f = ui_figure([100 100 200 150]);
ui_frame(f, [0 0 100 100]);
ui_frame(f, [100 0 100 100]);
ui_frame(f, [0 100 200 50]);
m-ui is free software and distributed under the GNU
General Public License.
