Desktop Tools and Development Environment

Navigating Among Desktop Tools

The Window menu displays all open desktop tools and documents. Select an entry in the Window menu to go directly to that tool or document. The tool becomes the active window, and when you type, the focus will be there.

This is an example of the Window menu when the Command Window, Command History window, Help browser, and the files collatz.m and povertystats.m are open.

Use shortcuts and mnemonics to go to a specific tool. For example, type Ctrl+0 to make the Command Window active and Ctrl+Shift+0 to go to the most recently used Editor/Debugger document. To go to a specific document, type Alt+W and then the mnemonic identifier, for example, A to go to the file collatz.m. Note that the mnemonic identifier for documents is temporary. For example, if you close collatz.m and open it later, the mnemonic might not be A.

Undocked desktop tools also have entries in the Windows task bar, or the equivalent for your platform. Click the task bar entry for a tool to make that tool active.

You can also run the function that opens a tool, and if the tool is already open, that selects the tool. For example, type helpbrowser to go to the Help browser. These functions are documented with each tool.

Arranging the Desktop

Closing Desktop Tools

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