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From: "Richard de Garis" <dickdeg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Does Matlab need better GUI controls?
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:26:02 +0000 (UTC)
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"Budias Aao" <budiao@hotmail.com> wrote in message <gs2s79$jn4$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "John Ramshur" <jramshur@gmail.com> wrote in message <gs10ct$rfm$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > With having experience programming in VB, VB.NET, and ASP.NET i've been disappointed in Matlab's GUI controls. Don't get me wrong Matlab is great for mathematical programming, but when you want to build a mathematical/scientific GUI it just seems to be behind others on the control styling. 
> > 
> > I'm in vista...I don't want a windows 98 looking GUI. Plus it wouldn't hurt to add some more types of controls and pull the uitab out of the "undocumented" section.
> > 
> > I'm curious to hear others comment.
> 
> IMO Matlab needs a whole new handle graphics system. The current one, sorry but that's what feel, just sucks.
> I don't know any graphics software so bad. If we feed it a somewhat large data it stalls. The memory usage is unbelievable. Default figure settings are pathetic with an enormous space wasting.

In contrast to many of the folks here, I do not have much application development experience; however, it does appear to me that the GUI user experience is rather limited compared to some of the rich applications that the general public now get enjoy and even consider to be standard fare - for example Adobe's Lightroom has tabbed panels and sliding panels, as well as drag and drop functionality within the GUI.

Another area that overlaps this topic is printing; if one has multiple tabs, is it possible to individually print the contents of each tab?  Actually, it should not only be possible, but a relatively easy process for the user to publish a page-layout through the GUI.

Overall I am finding MATLAB to be an excellent development environment on the computational side of an application, but a little weak on the tool-set for GUIs and printing.

Here's hoping the good folks at MathWorks can address everyone's issues here in near-future releases.