View text in editor without saving to file

Hi there,

I'm in the process of writing a GUI for my application with a feature of exporting the code to run as an M-file. At the moment the user is prompted for a file location, which is then written to and opened in the editor. However, what I'd like to do is save the text (i.e., code) to a tmp file and pipe this to a new untitled file in the editor without saving it. Does any one know if this is possible / how to do it?

Many thanks!

Nick

Answer 1

[Jiro Doke]

Depending on the release of MATLAB, you may be able to use the unsupported editor API through the editorservices package.

help editorservices

Here's an example:

editorservices.new(sprintf('data = rand(10,3);\nplot(data);'));

Mike wrote a blog post about this here.

Answer 2

[Jan]

Undocumented method working in Matlab 2009a, where Jiro's EDITORSERVICES is not available:

S = com.mathworks.mlservices.MLEditorServices;
S.newDocument('Your string here\n2nd line');

Look inside the EDIT function.