how make mini command window

hi all, anyone know how make mini command window?? i want some output of my program can display in mini command window on same frame with the program..

Answer 1

[Jan]

"Mini-command-window" implies, that you can start commands from this window. But there is one command window only. Do you want do reduce its size programatically? Then try: FEX: CmdWinTool.

If you only want to display some text:

function FigureHandle = ListText(FigureHandle, Str)
if nargin == 0
  FigureHandle = figure;
  ListH = uicontrol('Style', 'listbox', 'String', {}, ...
                    'Min', 0, 'Max', 2, 'Value', [], ...
                    'Units', 'normalized', ...
                    'Position', [0, 0, 1, 1]);
  set(FigureHandle, 'UserData', ListH);
else
  Str   = cellstr(Str);
  ListH = get(FigureHandle, 'UserData');
  Str   = cat(1, get(ListH, 'String'), Str(:));
  set(ListH, 'String', Str, 'ListBoxTop', length(Str));
end
drawnow;

Now you can call this function like this:

ListFig = ListText;
for i = 1:20
  pause(0.5);
  ListText(ListFig, datestr(now, 0));
end