The fact that it requires XDarwin and OroborOSX made me suspicious
Does that mean that it is an X Windows program? Does it have problems
interacting with "real" OS X programs? I take it if you "couldn't be
happier" you haven't run into any problems.
Joel
the answer is both yes and no. When you run MATLAB under OS X by clicking
the "Launch MATLAB" application, the main command window comes up as a native
OS X (carbon/cocoa) window. however, any figure windows are displayed by
the X-windows server.
Things start to get strange when you run matlab from within an xterm in
the X-windows server. For example, the following:
echo "ls" | matlab
produces the expected output in the terminal window (i.e, it does an ls and
then exits). however, if you just type "matlab" at the xterm prompt, the
matlab command window appears as an OS X native window. If you already have
one running and you type matlab again from another xterm, a second copy of
the matlab OS X program will be run (two matlab icons in the dock). Using
"matlab -nodesktop" it is possible to get it to run exclusively in the terminal
window.
cheers,
russ
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