| Installing and Using MATLAB on Mac OS X | |
Launcher
When you start up the Launcher (double-clicking LaunchMATLAB):
the utility starts up, but then in some situations (see below) it appears to hang, not starting OroborOSX or MATLAB.
This is because LaunchMATLAB uses AppleScript to launch OroborOSX before launching MATLAB. If, on the system in question, OroborOSX has never been started by double-clicking on its icon, it will not have been registered as an application that AppleScript knows how to start.
The workaround is to start OroborOSX manually once by double-clicking on the OroborOSX icon. (Use the Finder's File...Find menu item and search for "OroborOSX" if you cannot locate the icon.) This registers it with the operating system and allows AppleScript to find it. From then on, double-clicking on LaunchMATLAB should start OroborOSX automatically. (Note that if OroborOSX is already running, the Launcher will detect this and simply start MATLAB.)
Editors
This version of MATLAB supports UNIX editors such as Emacs and vi. If you try to run a Macintosh-type editor, unexpected results may occur.
As with other UNIX platforms, if you incorrectly type in an application name and the system cannot find it, the edit command will silently fail with no error message.
Figure Menus
When a figure is the active window, the OroborOSX menus appear at the top of the desktop. The figure menus appear at the top of the figure window.
Help Browser
At times, horizontal gray lines may appear in the Help browser when scrolling.
MATLAB Editor
In the Editor/Debugger Keyboard & Indenting Preferences dialog in Preferences, there are three key binding options: Emacs, Macintosh, and Windows. If you select Macintosh, the Menu accelerators (keyboard shortcuts) display and work properly in the Editor. If you select either Emacs or Windows, the accelerators work properly, but they do not display in the menus.
Property Editor
When using surface or patch objects, you cannot select Custom material... from the Material pull-down menu in the Lighting panel of the Property Editor. You must set the material properties from the command line.
Running MATLAB Remotely
You cannot run MATLAB remotely.
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