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

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