settings

Interact with Windows registry from MATLAB.

Description

Locating user-defined settings files from functions on different MATLAB paths or from compiled stand-alone MATLAB applications may represent a problem.

settings function allows storing MATLAB structures to Windows Registry. Interfacing is achieved from a ready to compile MATLAB function by shelling REGEDIT. Windows registry secure access rules apply.

Test function is included.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1)

[Michael Robbins]

Good idea

[David Abraham]

This is totally easy. I like it! Just dump your settings in the registry, retrieve easily, no problem. My previous sol'ns were messier and harder than this by a large margin.

[Jorge Bosch]

Yes, thanks Mihai, but it didn't work for me when I look for a key that doesn't exist and for some reason the regfile existed. So, I added a line to delete the regfile before calling the dos(cmd) function in loadsettings

[Paul Groot]

 

[Paul Groot]

Nice function! I think there is a minor issue with the double backslash escaping. You can get rid of all the double backslashes by changing the fprintf-line from:
   fprintf(fid,t)
to
   fprintf(fid,'%s\n',t);