Download Matlab 7.6

Matlab is an interactive and mathematical environment for developing algorithms, performing numerical calculations and visualizing and analyzing data. For more information, we refer you to this page. The developers have released version 7.6 with, among other things, a major update in the object-oriented programming options. The following list of adjustments looks like this:

Version 7.6, part of R2008a, offers a broad range of improvements in the following areas, including a major update to object-oriented programming capabilities.

Language and Programming:

• Major enhancements to object-oriented programming capabilities allowing easier development and maintenance of large applications and data structures. Many new features, including:
  • New classdef keyword enabling you to define properties, methods, and events in a class definition file
  • New handle class with reference behavior, aiding the creation of data structures such as linked lists
  • Events and listeners allowing the monitoring of object property changes and actions
  • JIT/Accelerator support providing significantly improved object performance over previous releases
  • Several enhancements to the development environment to support developing and using classes including improved support for objects in the variable editor and M-lint warnings specific to classes
• Ability to manage namespace by placing classes and functions in packages
• New clearvars function for clearing or keeping specified variables
• New onCleanup function to specify any cleanup tasks that need to be performed by MATLAB when a function completes

development environment:

• Ability to customize and rearrange the MATLAB Desktop and Editor toolbars
• Expanded code-folding support in the Editor, providing the ability to collapse cells and language constructs (including for, if, switch, and more)
• Enhanced inspection of structures and objects with the Variable Editor, previously known as the Array Editor
• File comparison tool expanded to allow comparison of directories, MAT files and binary files
• Several enhancements to automatic M-file publishing, including support for functions and the ability to define configurations on a per-file base M-Lint code checker support for Embedded MATLAB™ features

Mathematics:

• Ability to insert custom FFTW and LAPACK libraries
• New algorithms for ldl, logm, and funm based on recent numerical methods Research

Graphics and GUI Building:

• Ability to link plots to workspace variables, synchronizing displays of changing data
• Support for “brushing” (interactively selecting) data in plots for analysis and manipulation
• Brushed variables in one plot also will highlight in other plots linked to the same workspace data
• New control enabled, accessible from GUIDE, enabling the display and editing of tabular information in graphical user interfaces

File I/O and External Interfacing:

• MEX support for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2008, OpenWATCOM 1.7, and Intel® FORTRAN 10.1 software
• mmreader multimedia reader expanded to support QuickTime video on the Apple® Macintosh® platform (previously released on Microsoft® Windows® platforms)

Performance and Large Data Set Handling:

• New memory function providing memory information such as largest block available, providing diagnostics of memory problems on Windows platforms
• JIT/Accelerator support enhanced to statements executed at the MATLAB command line and in cell mode in the editor, providing improved performance in these environments
• Automatic multithreaded computation providing improved performance of supported functions on computers with multiple processors
• Significant speed improvement in multiplication of sparse matrices