Make Matlab stop maximizing every time it changes a variable.

When a run a .m script, whenever MatLab changes a variable he maximizes, even if I minimize it will just maximize again. Is there any way of disabling that?

[Walter Roberson]

What is it that maximizes ?

[Shizuka]

Sorry for the lack of technical names, I refer to the main window. The one called "Matlab R2012b".

If that's not clear, let me try to be a little more clear: Say, I open the 'editor' window, click 'Run' and then, while the script runs, the "Matlab R2012b) tries to stay constantly maximized.

[Sean de Wolski]

What does your script look like? MATLAB will try to elevate itself for certain things such as graphics.

[Shizuka]

Yeah, actually, it does various image manipulations(image painting, im2bw, edge finding), so that explain it. But still, is there any way to disable that?

[Jan]

@Shizuka: It is not clear, at leat to me, what actually happens. It is not trivial to maximize the command window, such that I do not expect that this happens by accident. Even for image manipulation, only the concerned figure should be lifted to the fronmost position, but not maximized.

I suggest to set a breakpoint in your program and step through the code line by line until you find the line, which causes the observed effect. Then post this line here.

[Jason Ross]

Also, what operating system you are using might be relevant. If it's Linux, also let us know what window manager is in use.

[Shizuka]

I'm using Windows. I'm going to try and find what is maximizing the window now.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

In order to use graphics (and update them) there are a few things you can do.

• Turn the figure's visibility off:

hFig = figure('Visible','off');
surf(peaks);

Now to turn it on after it's done:

set(hFig,'Visible','on');

• The other option is to use low-level plotting functionality such as line, surf and patch. These don't elevate ML.

[Shizuka]

Thanks. This solved my problem.