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Matlab main windows name

Norman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:29:03 -0500

Hi,

often I'm starting several Matlabs at once to work on different parts of a single problem. Every Matlab opens a set of figures to display current status and a GUI to control the program (e.g. 'pause' and 'stop' buttons).
But since I don't have a dozen monitors *g* I become confused which "Control GUI" controls which Matlab. So I thought that I could set the name of all the figures so that there's a unique references number for each Matlab. But the Matlab main window can't be changed that way (set(handle,'Name','someTexthere')) - or is there a way to do?

Greetings,
Norman

Re: Matlab main windows name

Norman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:53:03 -0500

Since there seems to be no solution I wonder if I can read the Windows (XP) process ID somehow to identify a Matlab. Probably a small C programm could do that (but of course I need the ID of the calling Matlab process not that of the c programm), but I don't know how. Can anyone help me?

Thank you,
Norman

Re: Matlab main windows name

Jan Simon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:14:04 -0500

Dear Norman!

> often I'm starting several Matlabs at once to work on different parts of a single problem. Every Matlab opens a set of figures to display current status and a GUI to control the program (e.g. 'pause' and 'stop' buttons).
> But since I don't have a dozen monitors *g* I become confused which "Control GUI" controls which Matlab. So I thought that I could set the name of all the figures so that there's a unique references number for each Matlab. But the Matlab main window can't be changed that way (set(handle,'Name','someTexthere')) - or is there a way to do?

com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance.getMainFrame.setTitle('Matlab 1');

See also:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/262011

Good luck, Jan

Re: Matlab main windows name

Norman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:34:03 -0500

"Jan Simon" <matlab.THIS_YEAR@nMINUSsimon.de> wrote in message <hddv8r$ln0$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Dear Norman!

>
> com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance.getMainFrame.setTitle('Matlab 1');
>
> See also:
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/262011
>
> Good luck, Jan

Great, it works! Thank you very much, Jan! In the meantime I have read that the Windows idea of a parent ID is dubiuos at least so I dropped my hope until now.

Greetings, Norman

Re: Matlab main windows name

Norman — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:10:22 -0400

Hi,

I have to add something to my last post here:

> Great, it works! Thank you very much, Jan! In the meantime I have read that the Windows idea of a parent ID is dubiuos at least so I dropped my hope until now.

On my WinXP machine I just use "feature('getPID')" and I get the windows process ID I looked for (using Matlab 2007b).

Thanks to Yair Altman and his website at http://undocumentedmatlab.com !