Anyone figure out how to send code from FireFox/Chrome to MATLAB for evaluation?

In the MATLAB Help Browser, you can right-click a text selection and choose 'Evaluate Selection' to evaluate it in the MATLAB Command Window. It would be super handy to be able to do the same by right-clicking a line(s) of MATLAB commands in FireFox/Chrome and selecting a command like 'Evaluate Selection in MATLAB'.

Anyone know how this could be done? In Internet Explorer I think you could do this in a Javascript bookmarlet or plug-in by using the ActiveXObject function to grab onto a MATLAB Automation Server handle, but this is only available in IE and not Firefox/Chrome. Anyone have ideas on how this could be done in non-IE browsers?

Cheers

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

Would this FEX submission help?

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/29027-web-server

[Eric Sampson]

I don't think so, or at least not as seamlessly as I'd like :) In that case it seems to me that you'd always need a browser tab open to the 'served' webpage, and then you could maybe copy-paste text into it for execution in the MATLAB engine. I could just as easily copy-paste directly into the MATLAB command window :) What I'm thinking of is the situation where you have some MATLAB commands in your browser, say from an online tutorial or in an email, and you could right-click the highlighted text and send it to your local MATLAB instance for evaluation.

Answer 2

[Elen Walker]

In the MAT LAB Help Browser, you can right-click a content choice and pick 'Assess Selection' to assess it in the MAT LAB Command Window. It would be super helpful to have the capacity to do likewise by right-clicking a line of MAT LAB directions in IE/Chrome and choosing an order like 'Assess Selection in MAT-LAB.To know more follow the guidelines on err spdy protocol error