MATLAB Runtime Server

Summary List: MATLAB Runtime GUI Application

This list summarizes the steps for creating a MATLAB runtime GUI application from a GUI-based application in MATLAB. The hyperlinks lead to the sections that describe the steps in more detail.

1. Stamp your development copy of MATLAB.
2. Adapt the design of the MATLAB portion of the application as necessary. See Design Issues for a Runtime Application.
3. Decide where to place the files you write for the runtime application.
• If you keep all files under toolbox, then remember to use rehash toolboxreset to register each change you make.
• If you keep the M-files outside of toolbox and move the P-files under toolbox only towards the end of your development and testing process, then remember to include the final destination directories in pathdefrt.
4. Create the startup function matlabrt.m by copying toolbox\runtime\matlabrt_template.m to toolbox\local and renaming it matlabrt.m. Then modify it as necessary and use rehash toolboxreset to register the change. It must:
• Invoke pathdefrt.
• Launch the application.
5. Create the path definition function pathdefrt.m by copying toolbox\runtime\pathdefrt_template.m to toolbox\local and renaming it pathdefrt.m. Then modify it as necessary:
• Use cleanp to remove any .p files from your path and current directory.
• Use depdir('matlabrt') to determine the runtime path.
• If you plan to move your P-files under toolbox later on, then include their destination directories in the runtime path.
• Use rehash toolboxreset to register the change in pathdefrt.m.
6. Use buildp to compile all application M-files into runtime P-files.

• Possible complications: toolbar or menu items, functions invoked by eval, MATLAB add-on products

7. Test the application:
• With your P-files in their final locations under toolbox, if they are not already there. After moving them, use rehash toolboxreset to register the changes.
• By having MATLAB emulate the Runtime Server. Use runtime on and runtime off.
• With the Runtime Server variant.

1. Return to earlier steps as necessary. When debugging, remember to stay current by deleting old P-files, producing new P-files whenever an M-file changes and using rehash toolboxreset as necessary to register changes.

Testing with the Runtime Server Variant

Developing a MATLAB Runtime Engine Application