Installing and Using MATLAB on Mac OS X

General Issues

Setting Help Preferences

To use the online Help browser, you need to set the Help preferences to point to the location of your help files. To set your Help preferences to the $MATLAB/help directory:

1. Select Preferences from the File menu.
2. In the Preferences dialog list, click Help.
3. In the Documentation location field in the Help Preferences, browse to $MATLAB/help, where $MATLAB is the installation directory for MATLAB.
4. Click OK.

Setting Pointer Location

You cannot set the pointer location using the set command. For example:

• p = get(0,'pointerlocation')
  set(0,'pointerlocation',[p(1) p(2)])
  

No Support for the AltiVec Processor

The AltiVec processor works with data types up to 32 bits, namely 32 bit or smaller integer and single-precision arithmetic. Since MATLAB does not support integer or single-precision arithmetic, MATLAB cannot take advantage of the AltiVec capability.

The MATLAB double-precision, core numerical linear algebra computations use ATLAS BLAS tuned to the G4 processor. If MATLAB supports integer or single-precision computations in the future, it is likely that MATLAB will support the AltiVec processor.

Viewlet Demos

Viewlets (demos that play like a video) do not run.

Known Problems and Limitations

Specific Product Issues