Is there a way to open a second command window to displya some numbers and text?

I know, I can do this using a GUI. But is there another way to do it, especially as no graphics capability is required?

Thanks Tomy Duby

Answer 1

[Titus Edelhofer]

Alternatively you could open some file and use fprintf to output data there. Open the file with some editor during the run of the program ...

Titus

Answer 2

[Daniel Shub]

Sure, but is is ugly ...

 system('matlab -r ''disp(12.01);pause(10);exit''')

[Jan]

I confirm that it is ugly.

[Tomy Duby]

Does not seem to be working for me. This is what I get:

ans =

disp(12.01);pause(10);exit

>>

and does not close the second Matlab windows after 10 seconds...

Tomy Duby

Answer 3

[Jan]

What about opening a figure and inserting a large UICONTROL('Style', 'listbox'). Then you can add messages as strings.

FigH = figure('menubar', 'none');
ListH = uicontrol('Style', 'listbox', ...
   'Units',    'normalized', ...
   'Position', [0,0,1,1], ...
   'String',   {}, ...
   'Min', 0, 'Max', 2, ...
   'Value', []);

for i = 1:10
  pause(0.5);
  Str = datestr(now, 0);
  newString = cat(1, get(ListH, 'String'), {Str});
  set(ListH, 'String', newString);
  drawnow;
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