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From: Stratis Gavves on 7 Jan 2010 08:06
Hi!

I am using Matlab for quite a long time and I have been producing figures for quite a long time. I always wondered why Matlab has this totally inconvenient File Management interface. I think it's due to Java, right?

Anyways, when I same a figure, it has as default the current path. Is there any way to remember the last path I used or at least change the default save directory for figures? Alternatively, is there any way to use a pretty common file management interface that all linux GUI's have and that allow you to set some "favourite" paths along with the default ones like "Desktop", "Home". Currently, in order to save 5 pictures to the Desktop, I have to get myself to the Desktop 5 times, which is unbelievably annoying.
From: Jan Simon on 7 Jan 2010 08:37
Dear Stratis!

> Anyways, when I same a figure, it has as default the current path. Is there any way to remember the last path I used or at least change the default save directory for figures?

You could use a wrapper function for UIPUTFILE, which remembers the last used folder.
I do not think that such features should be managed by the computing language (Matlab here), but by the programmer.

Kind regards, Jan
From: Stratis Gavves on 7 Jan 2010 08:56
"Jan Simon" <matlab.THIS_YEAR(a)nMINUSsimon.de> wrote in message <hi4o20$q1f$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> Dear Stratis!
>
> > Anyways, when I same a figure, it has as default the current path. Is there any way to remember the last path I used or at least change the default save directory for figures?
>
> You could use a wrapper function for UIPUTFILE, which remembers the last used folder.
> I do not think that such features should be managed by the computing language (Matlab here), but by the programmer.
>
> Kind regards, Jan

I was looking for some kind of function like UIPUTFILE but I couldn't find any, this is why I posted this message here. Thanks :)

However, this functionality is pretty basic I think. And it's not only about the last path used but the GUI itself that is counter-intuitive. I mean, MATLAB has all these cool features to make your life easy and you would expect that sth like that should be taken for granted.

Cheers,
Stratis
From: Jan Simon on 7 Jan 2010 10:16
Dear Stratis!

> I was looking for some kind of function like UIPUTFILE but I couldn't find any, this is why I posted this message here. Thanks :)

Have you seen these:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/9312-uiputfile2
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/10553-get-file-and-put-file-that-remembers-last-location
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/12460-get-file-and-put-file-with-memory
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/24965-defaultpathretrieval

I think, these programmers had similar wishes.

Kind regards, Jan
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