Why does the Help documentation not open in MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a) with JRE 1.6 ?

I want to use SUN JRE 1.6 and set the environment variable MATLAB_JAVA to point to the SUN JRE. Due to this the Help Browser does not open.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This is due to an issue with the version of WebRenderer that is used in MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a) and JRE 1.6.

In order to work around the issue try switching over to the MATLAB 7.3 (R2006a) HTML rendering component by running the following command at the MATLAB command prompt:

com.mathworks.mlwidgets.html.HTMLRenderer.setUseWebRenderer(false);

Restart MATLAB after issuing the command.

NOTE: The older HTML rendering component may not perform as well as the default renderer.