Windows® enviroment window control from matlab (activate window and enter commands)
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Is it possible to activate and control a (non Matlab) Windows® (7) cmd window from Matlab?
I now manually click on an opened Windows® command window, type a start command and press enter. I would like to automate this from within a Matlab environment.
Is this possible? And if yes, can somebody give me some pointers?
Joost
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C.J. Harris
on 22 Dec 2011
I don't have Windows 7 to test this on, but this method works for Windows XP. To run a system command just append the command with an exclaimation mark (!). Example:
!calc.exe
You can also evaluate a command in the dos prompt using the 'dos' command. Example:
dos('calc.exe')
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C.J. Harris
on 22 Dec 2011
Not as far as I know. Once you start the command window manually Matlab no longer has any access to it. There might be ways around it, but that would (probably) require an additional piece of software controlling program focus and issuing commands.
Friedrich
on 22 Dec 2011
Hi,
I think MATLAB don't has anything which can do this. One way could be writing a mex file which uses the WINDOWS API to get access to other windows, e.g. through the EnumWindows function:
Once you have the window handle you could be able to add some text in it. But not sure which command can help here.
Windows also have the createPipe command which allows you to control I/O:
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