How to navigate back programmatically in Simulink

Question

Most of Simulink actions is backed-up with a command-line code that does the same. I'm looking for a piece of code that throws me back to the previous block, exactly as the backward arrow.

Any idea?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 16 '18 at 12:38

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Perhaps a bit of dirty hack but seems to work for me and I can't find a built in command to navigate back.

Since the keyboard shortcut for the back button is ALT+LEFT, I wrote this simple function to simulate that keypress. I use the hilite_system to try to grab focus on the simulink window

Filename: navigateBack.m

function navigateBack
            import java.awt.*;
            import java.awt.event.*;

            rob=Robot;
            hilite_system(gcb)
            % ALT + LEFT :
            rob.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ALT)
            rob.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_LEFT)
            rob.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_LEFT)
            rob.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ALT)
end

If you run navigateBack from the matlab command window, it does the same as pressing the back window in simulink.

answered May 16 '18 at 12:38

scotty3785

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Thanks. Nice work-around. I didn't think of resolving it this way. – NoamG May 22 '18 at 11:32
Cool if it works, can you mark it as an accepted answer? (You can change later if someone comes along with a better answer) – scotty3785 May 22 '18 at 12:35
Mathworks' support could not provide a better solution. – NoamG Jun 03 '18 at 06:28

How to navigate back programmatically in Simulink

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