John Anderson

Great way to make windows always visible! I wish this was built into core MATLAB and available on other platforms too.

I've created a small patch to the file that allows to use other window names than "Figure X", i.e. for GUIDE windows or named figures. The original Author might want to incorporate it into his version:

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< char *windowName, n = 1;
---
> char *windowName, *ntSwitch, n = 1;
> mxArray *windowNameProp, *numberTitleProp; /* for getting the window name */
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< windowName = mxCalloc(1, sizeof(figureHandle)+8);
< sprintf(windowName, "Figure %d", figureHandle);
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< if( mexGet(figureHandle, "Visible") == NULL )
---
> if( mexGet(figureHandle, "Visible") == NULL ) {
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> }
>
> windowNameProp = mexGet(figureHandle, "Name");
> windowName = mxArrayToString(windowNameProp);
>
> numberTitleProp = mexGet(figureHandle, "NumberTitle");
> ntSwitch = mxArrayToString(numberTitleProp);
> if (strcmp(ntSwitch, "on") == 0) {
> if (strlen(windowName) == 0) {
> windowName = mxCalloc(1, sizeof(figureHandle)+8);
> sprintf(windowName, "Figure %d", figureHandle);
> } else {
> char *wBuf = windowName;
> windowName = mxCalloc(1, sizeof(figureHandle)+10+strlen(windowName));
> sprintf(windowName, "Figure %d: %s", figureHandle, wBuf);
> }
> }

Tried the example given above in:
MATLAB Version 7.5.0.342 (R2007b) windows XP and got:
figure(1);
winontop('figure 1');
??? Error using ==> winontop
First input argument must be a figure handle

Very useful, thanks a lot.