Is it possible to suppress the MATLAB Command Window from opening when you launch the MATLAB Engine using MATLAB 7.8 (R2009a)?

I am using the MATLAB Engine library to call MATLAB from my C code. When I call the ENGOPEN function to start a MATLAB Engine session, the MATLAB Command Window opens up when the MATLAB COM Server is created. As I am using MATLAB only for computation, I do not require the Command Window. It would be very useful to have the ability to provide additional arguments to the ENGOPEN function to suppress the Command Window.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The ability to suppress the MATLAB Command Window when starting a MATLAB Engine session is not available in MATLAB.

As a workaround, you can hide the command window once it has been opened using the ENGSETVISIBLE function. The following lines of code illustrate how you can do this:

Engine *ep;

ep = engOpen(NULL);

engSetVisible(ep, 0);