Terminal Print
c = tprintf( FigureName, Text );
Example:
tprintf( 'MyMessages', 'Hello world in 2nd terminal!' );
sends text 'Hello world in 2nd terminal!' to a window with the name MyMessages.
Clear the window: call without 2nd argument:
tprintf( FigureName );
Create window if it does not exist:
tprintf( FigureName , '' );
Requires external function findjobj(), provided by Yair Altman online from Matlab File Exchange
Peter Adany 2014
Cite As
Petorr (2020). tprintf -- Print to Second Terminal Window (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/47392-tprintf-print-to-second-terminal-window), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
Comments and Ratings (5)
Updates
| 1.6.0.0 | minor update; no features altered |
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| 1.4.0.0 | Code clarity / minor adjustments |
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| 1.3.0.0 | Minor improvements & code cleanup. |
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| 1.2.0.0 | 14317 acknowledgement |
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| 1.1.0.0 | Added ability to clear the window by calling without 2nd argument. |
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Inspired by: findjobj - find java handles of Matlab graphic objects
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Petorr (view profile)
I had no idea there were so many preexisting similar functions.
See jprintf:
mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8641-jprintf
Mine (tprintf) is quite simple, with one main file and one external dependency. I can attest I never knew of other ?printf functions out there when I made this. I hope everyone finds the one they like.
Petorr (view profile)
@Jan
Thanks for another good suggestion with the non-integer figure handles.
Re: hiding the unwanted axis, now that you've mentioned the problem doesn't exist, I can't seem to recreate it. Now there's some voodoo if you ask me...
Jan (view profile)
If you open the figure with 'IntegerHandle' set to 'off', the figure get a unique handle which is guaranteed not to collide with a user defined figure.
An axes appears "magically" in a new figure only, when a plotting command is called. But creating an invisible axes object is not useful to prevent this. So this is a kind of voodoo. ;-)
Petorr (view profile)
Jan,
I used the setdiff(...) code to find an unused figure number >= 1000 which will be somewhat out of the way of the user.
Thanks for the suggestion to use findobj. I now use findobj to find the figure and text handles.
When creating a figure, sometimes a default axis is created and sometimes it appears later. That's why I create and hide an axis manually for new figures.
Thanks for your comments! - Peter
Jan (view profile)
I do not understand the sense of
fH = min( setdiff(1000:10000,fHs) );
when fH is overwritte later.
What about this simple code to obtain the handle of the figure:
fH = findobj(allchild(0), 'flat', 'Name', figureName)
The axes aH is not used anywhere. So why do you create it?
You have the handle of the UICONTROL sH allready. Why do you obtain it by a loop and comparing the type of the figure's children? It would be cleaner to call either FINDOBJ instead of a loop, or to store the handle in teh figure's ApplicationData (see GUIHANDLE).