Thread Subject: Windows API calls from MATLAB: how?

Hi, can somebody please let me know if there is a way to
call Windows API calls from within MATLAB code. (For
instance I need to provide a "system reboot" or "shutdown"
option for the user in the GUI I am preparing. )

you can use loadlibrary() and calllib(). you may have
trouble pointing loadlibrary() at the full-up windows header
file, but you can craft a little one for yourself that only
includes the calls you care about.

alternatively, you can write yourself a little bitty C mex
function that you link to the Windows library, and call the
API from C.

reilly.
 

"Blueblood Kingroyale" <edproject.cec@gmail.com> wrote in
message <frd3kd$fn2$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi, can somebody please let me know if there is a way to
> call Windows API calls from within MATLAB code. (For
> instance I need to provide a "system reboot" or "shutdown"
> option for the user in the GUI I am preparing. )

"Blueblood Kingroyale" <edproject.cec@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:frd3kd$fn2$1@fred.mathworks.com...
> Hi, can somebody please let me know if there is a way to
> call Windows API calls from within MATLAB code. (For
> instance I need to provide a "system reboot" or "shutdown"
> option for the user in the GUI I am preparing. )

I'd probably go with the MEX-file approach John mentioned in his reply.
However, if all you need to do is "system reboot" or "shutdown", look at the
shutdown.exe program located in the main Windows directory (for me, it's in
the system32 subdirectory of my main Windows directory; your computer may
vary.)

--
Steve Lord
slord@mathworks.com

Hi,

I need to use 'user32.dll' in my program. However the
MatlabGenericDll is not supported in Matlab version 7...
what can i do about this?
I want to be able to call functions available in user32
dll in Windows... Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Blueblood

CALLLIB
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:35:08 -0400, Blueblood Kingroyale
<edproject.cec@gmail.com> wrote:

> MatlabGenericDll