Multiple versions of matlab communicate with same figure window?

Hi,

Is there any way for multiple instances of matlab to use the same figure handle for displaying data?

Basiclaly - i have several matlab scripts (that take a long time to run) that i would like to....(if possible)....use the same figure window for a progress bar.....that way....i can see how my scripts are progressing across multiple versions of matlab

any ideas?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Have the master window listen for on a UDP port for information from the other sessions broadcasting their ID and their progress.

You can use the Instrument Control Toolbox for UDP, or you can use the tcpudpip Matlab File Exchange (FEX) Contribution.

If all of the sessions are running on the same machine, you may be able to use shared memory to communicate between them. There is a FEX contribution to communicate between sessions with shared memory.

[Darin McCoy]

Thanks Walter - my situation is the second one (multiple sessions running on the same machine)...

do you know what the FEX is called for the shared memory communication?

[Jan]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/28572-sharedmatrix

[Darin McCoy]

Jan -

Do you have any entries that work on windows machines? That submission looks like it works just for UNIX style machines...

[Walter Roberson]

Windows XP SP2 and later _claim_ POSIX compliance. I've never had sufficient motivation to test that claim.

Answer 2

[Jan]

You could write the progress status of the different threads to one or several files, and read them by the main thread to display the progress bars.

There are nicer methods, but this is simple.