And, Yair has "teased" us with some "Future enhancements," including enabling rbbox capture from non-figures (it will be To draw a region of interest with a rubberband box. I also like the interactive capabilities of the tool if you don't specify a handle or position, you will be prompted To accommodate image handles in their native units so that this works on images much like imcrop does. He went to a lot of effort (much of it at my suggestion!)
I particularly like Yair's documentation, and his attention to detail. Title('Original','color','r','fontsize',24)Īdditionally, you can specify the 'position' of a capture to grab a portion of a window, or you can specify the name of aįile to which you can directly write the image information. str, status urlread() suppresses the display of error messages, using any of the input arguments in the. Handles to the desktop or to uicontrols- and easily capture an image from it: So what does ScreenCapture do? You can provide the handle to a figure or an axes-indeed, to any valid MATLAB handle, including That said, today's featured file is both very useful, and reliant only on documented aspects of the MATLAB language. No guarantee that what works in this version of MATLAB will continue to work in the next. We generally try to avoid Picking File Exchange submissions that rely on undocumented MATLAB to get things done there's simply My problem is that the ribbons are so tiny small on my screen that one cannot see which button is which. In particular, Yair is the Yoda of undocumented MATLAB, and has, in fact, written a great textbook on the subject. Over the years, Yair has provided great value, throughīoth the File Exchange and the Newsgroup. Those of you who follow the happenings on MATLAB Central (in general) are likely already familiar with Yair's contributions.
Am I interested in results from the Image Processing Toolbox, the Bioinformatics Toolbox, or the Computer Vision System Toolbox? Am I doing sequence analysis or image analysis? Do I want to see function reference pages or examples? For More Informationįor more information about the changes to MATLAB in R2012b, see the Release Notes page.Brett's Pick this week is the ScreenCapture, by Yair Altman. If I search for "connected components", the search results page looks like this:įrom this point, I can refine my search. For example, here's a screen clip of the PUBLISH tab on the Toolstrip:įinally, I wanted to mention the ability to refine documentation searches in several different ways. The organization and presentation of capabilities in the new "Toolstrip" at the top of MATLAB is intended to make it easier for MATLAB users to find, learn, and use important MATLAB capabilities. This story illustrates one of the biggest reasons why MATLAB looks a lot different in R2012b. After most of her talks, she tells this tale: "Hey, guess what new MATLAB feature the users in name-your-city were most excited about? Publish!" And then we all laugh kind of sadly, because the Publish feature was added to MATLAB eight years ago! My friend Loren Shure regularly travels all over the place giving talks about MATLAB. This release continues that trend, with several multiplatform Excel file enhancements. Several release cycles ago, we started working on improving Excel file support on platforms other than Windows. Writing BigTIFF files is also possible, although the process is more complicated. The function imread can now read BigTIFF files. A variant called BigTIFF was designed to break through this limit. The original TIFF image file format was limited to a file size of 4 GB or less. As usual, they've speeded up and added multithreading capability to more MATLAB math functions, including the special functions airy, psi, and several Bessel functions.
I work on the same hallway as the MATLAB Math team, so I get to eavesdrop on what they're doing. I was interested to see some improvements in R2012b for the Mac, such as support for full-screen view mode.
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I became a Mac owner for the first time this summer, so I've been learning more about Macs and about MATLAB on the Mac for the past few months.