MATLAB Runtime Server

Disabling Default Menu Options Selectively

You may want to take advantage of the built-in MATLAB tools for tasks such as printing the contents of figure windows that your application uses. This section describes how to include selected functionality from MATLAB figure menus in your own application.

Note    If you use menu callbacks from the default MATLAB figure menus and later ship your application with a future version of MATLAB, then you should test those callbacks with the future version. The names and functionality of MATLAB default menu callbacks are not guaranteed to remain unchanged from one version of MATLAB to the next.

You must disable these default menu options:

• From the File menu:
• New Figure
• Preferences...
• Edit menu
• View menu
• Insert menu
• From the Tools menu:
• Select & Edit
• Move Camera
• Camera Motion
• Camera Axis
• Camera Reset
• Basic Fitting
• Data Statistics
• Window menu
• Help menu

To use a menu bar on your own figure window that is a modification of the default menu bar:

1. Close all figures that may have been open from previous MATLAB work in the current session.
2. Prepare a modified version of the default menu bar by navigating to your application's working directory and executing these commands.

• figure('menubar','figure','toolbar','none')
  set(findall(gcf),'handlevisibility','on','serializable','on')
  m = get(gcf,'children');
  figure('menubar','none','toolbar','none')
  copyobj(flipud(m),2)
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','&Edit'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','&View'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','&Insert'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','&Window'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','&Help'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','&New Figure'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','Pre&ferences...'),'separator',...
     'off','visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','Select && &Edit'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','Move &Camera'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','Camera &Motion'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','Camera A&xis'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','Camera Re&set'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','&Basic Fitting'),'visible','off')
  set(findobj(gcf,'label','&Data Statistics'),'visible','off')
  hgsave(gcf,'mymenufile.fig')
  close gcf; close gcf
  

3. In your application, issue this command to open a new figure window with the customized menu.

• newfig = hgload('mymenufile.fig');
  

You can also make other modifications using MATLAB layout tools, such as changing the callbacks for menu options that are not disabled, and adding new menu options of your own. See "Creating GUIs" for details on using the layout tools.

Preventing Command Window Input/Output

Providing a Way to Exit the Application