From: "Brian Powell" <powellb@ucsc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Mac Intel OpenGL error
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Brian,

I don't mean to diminish your optimism. I was trying (inelegantly) to
say that I hadn't even tried to use the matlab desktop for opengl.
When I did try it, I noticed that the menus weren't there. I wish you
the best in the continued evolution of the code.

I did notice that when R2006b (beta) was started with "matlab
-nodesktop" it ran in the terminal with java graphics. There is a bug
in 2007a (final) that when run with "matlab -nodesktop" it uses X11
graphics. I think it should use java graphics unless run with "matlab
-nojvm". Any word on this?

 Brian Arnold wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I might be hopelessly optimistic but I think the MATLAB Desktop
> (Java-based) has been getting better in each release, but I'll
> agree we
> could be aiming higher. It's worth noting that Apple's Java uses
> Cocoa
> under the skin and we sprinkle in native Cocoa code where it makes
> sense, but it remains to be seen whether our efforts will ever be
> seen
> as "truly native" (a true Cocoa app).
>
> As for the menus not being in the screen menu bar, that's a dead
> giveaway we're not close yet. With each release, we try putting
> them
> there, but we keep finding issues preventing us from leaving them
> this
> way. In the Intel Mac beta, screen menus were actually enabled,
> and
> customers found several issues, some of which will require Apple
> updates, so we had to go back...again. Not all of our problems
> have
> been Apple-related, but we depend a lot on Apple and Sun support
> for
> some of the more complicated things we do. We have worked with
> Apple
> (and sometimes Sun) and both have been very supportive of our work;
> wish
> me luck that we get this right some day.
>
> We are investigating the relatively poor result with SPARSE in
> bench on
> Intel-based Mac (this was reported by 7a pre-release customers and
> by
> internal users).
>