Looking for additional 2017 documentation

I have replaced 2010b with 2017b. The desktop at the Home tab is quite different. I cannot find any documentation that explains the features on the task bars or tool bars. Even common features like drag and drop a window is different from 2010. BTW not everything is intuitive or self explanatory.

I have the 2017 .pdf file but it does not explain how to navigate or use the desktop home, plots, apps tabs although there is a little about preferences.Does anyone know where I can find such information?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

See the R2017b documentation on Desktop Environment (link).

That should give you the information you want. If you need further information, post back here.

[Joseph]

Thanks for responding. Let me clarify my need. For example the are two features titled New Script and New Live Script. I never heard of this with 2010. As I play with them it appears to be an editor with some neat capabilities. However there is only user info for the live script via an example. Nothing on how to use the function editor other than boilerplate format. I'm sure I could use the full capability of the function editor by fumbling and bumbling with it ... or maybe not.

Am I making myself clearer?

Thanks again.

[Star Strider]

The Live Editor was introduced in R2016a. The documentation on it is somewhat sparse (in my opinion). One source is What Is a Live Script? (link). Beyond that, see the MATLAB Release Notes for that and subsequent releases for details on the various improvements over the years.

The regular Editor has not changed much.

There is one change in the way calculations are performed in code that can be confusing, and that is the automatic expansion for array operations, introduced in R2016b, if I remember correctly. It was previously necessary to use bsxfun for this, and I still use it rather than the automatic expansion. The problem is that automatic expansion (again in my opinion) can make code more difficult to debug.

I added some tags to your Question, intending to attract the attention of other Contributors.

[Steven Lord]

Jumping seven years worth of releases at once is a big step. There have been many, many improvements and changes to MATLAB and other products during that time. I second Star Strider's recommendation to review the Release Notes for the releases between R2010b and R2017b, as they will describe those improvements and changes.

[Joseph]

Thanks. I finally found where MathWorks keeps the release notes posted. This could be long walk in the wilderness.

[Star Strider]

Our pleasure.

I linked to the Release Notes in my Answer.

[Wendy Fullam]

Additionally, the releases notes now let you select a starting and ending release, and also filter by category, and desktop is one of the options: 10b to 17b, Desktop category HTH.