how can I enable chromium dev tools for an HTML ui component in my matlab app?

I'm making an app with the matlab app designer. In it there's an html ui component with css and js. It seems devtools is disabled by default as ctrl+shift+i doesn't do anything and writing debugger; in the javascript code does nothing. How can I enable the chromium devtools? Thanks.

Answer 1

[Sreeram]

Hi Omri,

MATLAB App Designer does not support Chromium DevTools directly within the app. However, you can open the HTML file in your system's web browser and use its DevTools to set breakpoints and debug the code, as suggested in the documentation:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2021b/matlab/creating_guis/create-an-html-file-that-sets-data-or-responds-to-data-changes-from-matlab.html#:~:text=href%3D%22%22%3E%0A%0A%3C/body%3E%0A%0A%3C/html%3E-,Debug%20an%20HTML%20File,-If%20you%20create

The documentation also provides the steps for sending data from MATLAB to JavaScript.

Also, you may refer to this MATLAB Answers thread:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/464685

I hope this helps.