| Desktop Tools and Development Environment, MATLAB® Version 7.0.4 (R14SP2) Release Notes | |
New features and changes are organized by these topics:
In MATLAB® 7.0.4 (R14SP2) software, the following two changes have been made to the MathWorks™ Installer on Microsoft® Windows® platforms:
The Installer now allows a folder name with spaces in the installation path.
The Installer honors the default installation folder for Windows software, which on most machines is Program Files.
These changes were made in response to many customer requests and the desire to conform to a widely established industry practice for the PC platform.
Note MathWorks products are used and integrated into many software environments. If you use MathWorks products in conjunction with other third party applications (compilers, other numerical analysis packages, etc.) you might want to continue installing into a folder that does not have spaces in the path until you have tested that those applications work with MathWorks products. |
When quitting MATLAB, a confirmation dialog box appears if you set a new preference for that purpose. By default, the confirm quitting preference is not set, so the dialog box will not appear. To change the preference, see the instructions for Confirmation Dialogs Preferences in the desktop documentation.
MATLAB is now using version 1.5 of Sun Microsystems™ Java™ JVM™ software on Windows, Linus Torvalds Linux® (32-bit), and Sun Microsystems Solaris™ platforms. Java software is supplied with MATLAB, so this change requires no action on your part.
If you use a specific version of Java with MATLAB on Windows, Linux 32-bit, or Solaris platforms, this change might affect you.
There are new preferences for displaying or not displaying confirmation dialog boxes for desktop tools. In previous versions, some of these preferences existed but were located with other preferences for the associated desktop tool. They are now organized in one preference panel for all desktop tools. Access them by selecting File > Preferences > General > Confirmation Dialogs. These preferences work in conjunction with the Do not show this prompt again check boxes that appears on various desktop confirmation dialog boxes. For more information, see Confirmation Dialogs Preferences in the desktop documentation.
The Command Window now supports overwrite mode. Press the Insert key to enter text in overwrite mode. Press the Insert key again to return to entering text in insert mode. View the current state at the far right end of the status bar of the Command Window when it is undocked, or in the desktop when the Command Window is docked and has focus. In insert mode, OVR in the status bar is gray and the cursor has a wide block shape.
Set the color of hyperlinks that display in the Command Window. Select File > Preferences > Command Window, and under Display, select Hyperlink color.
To get help for a subfunction, use
help functionname>subfunctionname
In previous versions, the syntax was help functionname/subfunctionname. This change was introduced in R14 (MATLAB 7.0) but was not documented.
The Release Notes sections "Major Bug Fixes" and "Known Software and Documentation Problems" no longer include the content in the installed help files. Instead, the sections provide links to these lists on the MathWorks Web site. The lists on the Web site can be updated after the release date to reflect the latest information.
As a result of this change, the Help browser Search feature will not find search terms that are in the content of those reports. Use the MathWorks Web site search features to look for search terms in those reports.
You can now specify how you want decimal numbers to be formatted when you cut or copy cells from the Array Editor and paste them into text files or other applications. You can specify a separator for this purpose in the Array Editor panel of the Preferences dialog. The Decimal separator to use when copying edit field is by default "." (period). If you are working in or providing data to a locale that uses a different character to delimit decimals, type that character in this edit field and click OK or Apply.
The Workspace browser preferences panel was removed. The entry on that panel was for confirming deletion of variables. That preference is now part of General > Confirmation Dialogs preferences.
Compatibility Considerations
Use File > Preferences > General > Confirmation Dialogs instead of File > Preferences > Workspace Browser.
There are new Current Directory browser preferences you can access by selecting File > Preferences > Current Directory Browser, Browser display options:
View the file size by selecting the Show file sizes check box. (This is selected by default.)
For models created with Simulink® software, view brief descriptions in the Description column when Show M and MDL file descriptions is selected.
For models created with Simulink, view the complete descriptions in the lower pane when the preference for Show M, MDL and MAT file contents is selected. This allows you to view information about a model without running Simulink.
Go directly to a subfunction or nested function within an M-file using the enhanced Go To dialog box. Access the dialog box by selected Edit > Go To. Click the Name column header to arrange the list of functions alphabetically, or click the Line column header to arrange the list by the position of the functions in the file.
You can now access the MATLAB Help browser from the MATLAB stand-alone Editor. This provides you with documentation for MATLAB, including using Editor features and MATLAB functions.
The Show dialog prompt preference has been moved to Preferences > General > Confirmation Dialogs. For more information, see Confirmation Dialogs Preferences in the desktop documentation.
Use File > Preferences > General > Confirmation Dialogs instead of File > Preferences > Editor/Debugger to set this preference.
Now, when you drag text from the Editor/Debugger to another application, it maintains the syntax highlighting and font characteristics.
There is a new source control interface feature for Windows platforms, Register Project with MATLAB. Use this to associate all files in a directory with a source control project. You perform this for any file in a directory, which registers the directory and all files in that directory. You only perform this once in a directory, and must perform it before you perform any other source control actions for files in that directory.
Access the feature in the Current Directory browser by right-clicking a file and selecting Source Control > Register Your Source Control System Project with MATLAB from the context menu. You can also access it from the Editor/Debugger File menu. To access the feature for files created with Simulink or Stateflow® software, use the Current Directory browser.
For a summary of the process, see the topic Source Control Interface on Microsoft® Windows® in the desktop documentation.
In previous releases, this feature was part of the Add to Source Control feature. You still need to add each file to source control, but you do this after first registering the directory that contains the file.
The name of the project in the source control system is no longer required to exactly match the name of the directory on disk containing the files.
The files created when publishing using cells now have more natural extensions. JPEG files now have a .jpg instead of a .jpeg extension, and EPSC2 files now have an .eps instead of an .epsc2 extension.
If you relied on the formerly used file extensions, you need to accommodate the changes.
Publishing to LaTeX now respects the image file type you specify in preferences rather than always using EPSC2 files.
The Publish image options in Editor/Debugger preferences for Publishing Images have changed slightly. The changes prevent you from choosing invalid formats.
Notebook will no longer support the Microsoft Word 97 application starting in the next release of MATLAB.
If you use Word 97 with Notebook, you will need to migrate to a more recent version.
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