Jul 31

Making MATLAB 7 more Mac-like

The good news is that last year's tip for making MATLAB 6 more Mac-like works just fine with the newly released version 7 with the slight change that you need to copy the MATLAB.app bundle from MATLAB7/bin/mac/ rather than MATLAB7/bin/.

The bad news is that Mathworks still hasn't caught on to this new-fangled application bundle concept.

2006-09-28 Update: this is still an issue with the 2006b release. Here's the three-line workaround:

chris@enceladus:/Applications $ mv MATLAB73/bin/mac/StartMATLAB.app MATLAB7.3.app 
chris@enceladus:/Applications $ mv MATLAB73 MATLAB7.3.app/Contents/ 
chris@enceladus:/Applications $ perl -p -i.bak -e 's|^cd \.\./\.\.|cd Contents/MATLAB73|' MATLAB7.3.app/Contents/launch_matlab.sh