Disable and Hide Model Editor Items

You can disable items that appear on the Simulink^® Toolstrip and context menus. You can also hide items that appear on context menus. To disable or hide an item, you must:

Create a filter function that disables or hides the item (see Create a Filter Function).
Register the filter function with the customization manager (see Register a Filter Function).

Example: Disable the New Model Command in the Simulink Toolstrip

function sl_customization(cm)
  cm.addCustomFilterFcn('Simulink:NewModel',@myFilter);
end

function state = myFilter(callbackInfo)
  state = 'Disabled';
end

Create a Filter Function

Your filter function must accept a callback info object and return the state that you want to assign to the item. Valid states are:

'Hidden'
'Disabled'
'Enabled'

Your filter function may have to compete with other filter functions and with Simulink itself to assign a state to an item. Who succeeds depends on the strength of the state that each assigns to the item.

'Hidden' is the strongest state. If any filter function or Simulink assigns 'Hidden' to a menu item, it is hidden. For Simulink Toolstrip items, specifying 'Hidden' disables the item instead of hiding it.
'Disabled' overrides 'Enabled', but is itself overridden by 'Hidden'.
'Enabled' is the weakest state. For an item to be enabled, all filter functions and the Simulink or Stateflow^® products must assign 'Enabled' to the item.

Register a Filter Function

Use the customization manager addCustomFilterFcn method to register a filter function. The addCustomFilterFcn method takes two arguments: a tag that identifies the menu or item to be filtered and a pointer to the filter function itself. For example, the following code registers a filter function for the New Model item on the Simulink Toolstrip.

function sl_customization(cm)
  cm.addCustomFilterFcn('Simulink:NewModel',@myFilter);
end

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