SettingsGroup

Group of settings and subgroup objects

Description

A SettingsGroup is an object within the settings hierarchical tree. At the top of the tree is the root SettingsGroup. Each SettingsGroup can contain a collection of other SettingsGroup and Setting objects.

Creation

Access the root SettingsGroup object using the settings function. For example:

s = settings

Object Functions

`addSetting`	Add new setting
`addGroup`	Add new settings group
`removeGroup`	Remove settings group
`removeSetting`	Remove setting
`hasGroup`	Determine if settings group exists
`hasSetting`	Determine if setting exists in settings group

Examples

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Access and Modify a Setting

Get and set the value for the maximum column width for comments in MATLAB^®.

Get the root SettingsGroup object and view the active value for the maximum column width for comments in MATLAB.

s = settings
s.matlab.editor.language.matlab.comments.MaxWidth.ActiveValue

ans =
  int32
   75

Set the temporary value for the maximum column width for comments in MATLAB.

s.matlab.editor.language.matlab.comments.MaxWidth.TemporaryValue = 80
s.matlab.editor.language.matlab.comments.MaxWidth.ActiveValue

ans =
  int32
   80

Version History

Introduced in R2018a