Desktop Tools and Development Environment Upgrade Issues

MATLAB Release Notes

Desktop Tools and Development Environment Upgrade Issues

The issues involved in upgrading from MATLAB 7.0.1 to MATLAB 7.0.4, in terms of Desktop Tools and Development Environment features, are discussed below.

Startup and Shutdown

MATLAB is now using Java (JVM) 1.5 on Windows, Linux (32-bit), and Solaris platforms. Java is supplied with MATLAB. This change requires no action on your part.

Desktop

All confirmation dialog box preferences are now part of the new preference panel General -> Confirmation Dialogs. For more information, see the topic Confirmation Dialogs in the Desktop Tools and Development Environment documentation.

Help for MATLAB

To get help for a subfunction, use

```
help functionname>subfunctionname
```

In previous versions, the syntax was help functionname/subfunctionname. This change was introduced in R14 (MATLAB 7.0) but was not documented.

The Release Notes sections "Major Bug Fixes" and "Known Software and Documentation Problems" no longer include the content in the installed help files. Instead the sections provide links to these lists on the MathWorks Web site. The lists on the Web site can be updated after the release date to reflect the latest information.

As a result of this change, the Help browser Search feature will not find search terms that are in the content of those reports. Use the MathWorks Web site search features to look for search terms in those reports.

Source Control Interface

The name of the project in the source control system is no longer required to exactly match the name of the directory on disk containing the files.
There is a new source control interface feature for Windows platforms, Register Project with MATLAB. In previous releases, this feature was part of the Add to Source Control feature. See a description in Source Control Interface section in New Features.

For a summary of the process, see the topic Source Control Interface on Windows Platforms in the desktop documentation.

Publishing

Publishing to LaTeX now respects the image file type you specify in preferences rather than always using EPSC2-files.
The Publish image options in Editor/Debugger preferences for Publishing Images have changed slightly. The changes prevent you from choosing invalid formats.
The files created when publishing using cells now have more natural extensions. For example, JPEG-files now have a .jpg instead of a .jpeg extension, and EPSC2-files now have an .eps instead of an .epsc2 extension.
Notebook will no longer support Microsoft Word 97 starting in the next release of MATLAB.

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