Add a custom JToolbar to the new toolstrip in R2012b

EDIT: A supported way to do this is with the Quick Access Toolbar: see Loren's blog http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/ for 19th September 2012.

For those that want it, here's a quick way to add custom functions to the tool strip using a JToolbar.

Improvements welcome (and probably needed) so post them in.

Run:

customToolbar.setup()

then add buttons using

customToolbar.add(mylabel, callback)
customToolbar.add(mylabel, callback, tooltip)
customToolbar.add(pathtoMyIcon, callback)
customToolbar.add(pathtoMyIcon, callback, tooltip)

Classdef:

classdef customToolbar
      properties (Constant)
          toolbar=javax.swing.JToolBar();
      end
      methods(Static)
          function setup() 
              panel=javaObjectEDT(javax.swing.JPanel(java.awt.BorderLayout()));
            customToolbar.toolbar.setPreferredSize(java.awt.Dimension(300,20));
              panel.add(customToolbar.toolbar, java.awt.BorderLayout.NORTH);      com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDesktop.getInstance.getMainFrame().getToolstrip().addActionsPanel(customToolbar.toolbar);   
          end
          function button=add(imageFile, callback, toolTip)
              if isempty(dir(imageFile))
                  icon=imageFile;
              else
                  icon=javax.swing.ImageIcon(imageFile);
              end
              button=javax.swing.JButton(icon);
              button.setSize(java.awt.Dimension(20,20));
              customToolbar.toolbar.add(button);
              button=handle(button,'callbackproperties');
              set(button, 'MouseClickedCallback', callback);
              if nargin==4
                  button.setToolTipText(toolTip);
              end
          end
      end
end

[Yair Altman]

expect to be plagiarized soon on UndocumentedMatlab.com ... :-)