Matlab CSS (MSS)

Matlab CSS tries to bring the power of W3C's Cascading Stylesheets to Matlab GUIs.

Description

With MSS, you have easy control over the appearance of all your GUI's through a simple CSS file.

What can be styled with MSS?

The primary target for MSS are GUIs designed with GUIDE. But in fact, you could use it for plain figures or even any type of handle-enabled object.

 
What styles can be applied?

Any field of a handle-object can be set with MSS. Everywhere you would normally use set(handle,'myproperty',myvalue), you could use the MSS equivalent handle {myproperty: myvalue}.

Getting started

Download the project files and put them somewhere were matlab can find them: add the path with addpath('fill in the dir') and optionally save the path with savepath. Run classpath. To test things out, navigate to the 'sample' subdirectory and try styling the sample GUI with tylefig('sample.fig','default.css') or by running the m-file run.

more info: http://student.kuleuven.be/~s0170633/projects/MSS

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a)
• Other requirements: Uses java 1.5

[Richard Mac]

The principle is interesting. Unfortunately, I didn't get it to work. (I only spent five minutes trying it though). I'm not going to give it a rating because if I did figure out how to get it to work I'd probably like it alot.

[Shankar Natarajan]

Before submitting make sure you have the steps in there.