api_showwindow

The function warps the WIN32 ShowWindow API in User32.dll.

Description

When using MATLAB on windows platforms one could write MEX files to access the WIN32 API functions. However such a tutorial is difficult to find.

I decided to post an example with a commented C-MEX file that will demonstrate how to accurately find the windows handle of a MATLAB figure window and then do some API command on it.

For simplicity I selected the 'ShowWindow' API because it can be used to solve the 'common' figure maximization problem. (maximizefigure.m sample included)

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; maxfig, WindowAPI
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 6.1 (R12.1)
• Other requirements: Windows Platform

[R M]

Great! Really useful just for the maximize window fix. I bet there's some other cool stuff you could do with this wrapper too.

Humm...

[Jocke K]

Excellent! Easy to use.

[Yuval Cohen]

Excellent piece of code. Much better than my poor attempts to resizes the figure according to the screen size property ( i.e. "get(0,'ScreenSize')" ).

[Alex V]

Thanks for this code. Very helpful.

[Nitesh Bhandari]

Great, I wanted this for over a year, and it was hard to come to. This makes Matlab even more and more intersting to me

[Matthew Simoneau]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=3434

[NK University]

Thanks for your kindly work! While it may not be used in Matlab ver > 7!!!