Size and position of command window on screen

During startup, I would like to 1) undock the Matlab desktop windows, 2) turn off all Matlab windows except the command window, and 3) establish the size and position of the command window on my screen. I would like to do this all in startup.m rather than matlabrc.m.

Is this possible? If so, what commands do I use? Does this involve merely involve adding option switches to the matlab.exe command line in startup.m? If so, what switches would I use? If I cannot do this in startup.m, can it be done in matlabrc.m?

Thank you for your responses.

Answer 1

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi Joseph,

if you only want to use the command window you might just start MATLAB without the desktop

matlab -nodesktop

Add this as parameter to your MATLAB icon.

Titus

[Titus Edelhofer]

To position the command window initially I guess the following submissions to the FileExchange should help moving the command window around:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/3407

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/3434

Answer 2

[Jan]

This function can set some features of the command window programmatically: CmdWinTool. The "setLayout" and "Position" arguments will be useful.

[Nasser Hosseini]

Hi!

Is this CmdWinTool supposed to work with the standalone Windows applications? I tried it but the application fails. Are there any other solutions to handle the size and the position of the Windows Command prompt in the compiled standalone applications?

Answer 3

[Nipun]

Hi Joseph,

On windows you can use commands like CmdWinTool with parameters 'setLayout' and 'position'.

Hope that is fine