Icons

Toolbar button labels

GUI toolbar button labels can easily be set and customized using underlying Java components.

January 8, 2018 No Comments Read More »

Icon images & text in Matlab uicontrols

HTML can be used to add image icons to Matlab listbox and popup (drop-down) controls.

September 28, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 1

Matlab Desktop shortcuts can be programmatically accessed and customized.

December 23, 2015 5 Comments Read More »

Customizing Matlab uipanels

Matlab uipanel controls can be customized using Java in ways that are impossible with plain Matlab.

February 25, 2015 14 Comments Read More »

Customizing listbox/combobox items

Matlab listboxes can be customized using custom Java cell-renderers.

September 17, 2014 2 Comments Read More »

Animated busy (spinning) icon

An animated spinning icon label can easily be embedded in Matlab GUI.

April 16, 2014 51 Comments Read More »

Rich-contents log panel

Matlab listboxes and editboxes can be used to display rich-contents HTML-formatted strings, which is ideal for log panels.

September 18, 2013 15 Comments Read More »

Images in Matlab uicontrols & labels

Images can be added to Matlab controls and labels in a variety of manners, documented and undocumented.

October 17, 2012 29 Comments Read More »

Customizing menu items part 3

Matlab menu items can easily display custom icons, using just a tiny bit of Java magic powder.

May 9, 2012 39 Comments Read More »

Uitab colors, icons and images

Matlab's semi-documented tab panels can be customized using some undocumented hacks

November 10, 2010 37 Comments Read More »

Maurizio (9 days 14 hours ago): Hi Yair, how can I define a callback for a cell/row/column selection? In createTable you can define a data changed callback, but if you simply select a cell, how can you define a...
Donato (11 days 14 hours ago): Hi Yair, it seems that in Matlab R2019b this method doesn’t work. Have you some solutions? Thanks.
Maurizio (13 days 0 hours ago): Thank you Yair, I’ve supposed it, but I was not sure. Maurizio
Yair Altman (13 days 14 hours ago): headers is a simple cell array of strings (column header names). I thought that was pretty obvious from the context… Additional types of uitable customizations are...
Maurizio (13 days 15 hours ago): Hi Yair, i’m trying to use your code example to change the colors of a table cell, but I have a doubt: in the following part of your code: % Yellow background for significant...
Mike (16 days 16 hours ago): When I use the suggestion above to set the ‘defaultAxesCreateFcn 217;, it works as expected in that the axes toolbar is gone and the default behavior is to zoom. However,...
Yair Altman (29 days 23 hours ago): @Maurizio – instead of using the integrated Panel title, you can use a separate label control (uicontrol('Style','text',...) or a JLabel). Alternatively, you can customize...
Maurizio Giardina (30 days 0 hours ago): Hi Yair, make transparent panel background is what I need for my application, but I have a problem:the panels I use have also a title, and the background of the title is...
Menno (33 days 19 hours ago): Dear Yair, As an experienced Matlab user, I have been following your site for quite some time now. With your great series of articles on the Toolstrip, I managed to build a...
Iliya Romm (52 days 22 hours ago): To anybody attempting this in R2019b (and later?): unless you specify the image size, nothing will be shown!. A solution is presented in this answer str = [''];
Yair Altman (56 days 23 hours ago): @Don – you can control the components of controllib.widget.Slider using its internal properties, as follows: >> warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % avoid warning >>...
Don (57 days 1 hour ago): I do not see a visible (on/off) property. Is there a way hide/unhide these, specifically controllib.widget.Slider. I currently just use Position and move it out of visible range. Also,...
Philip Howard (63 days 18 hours ago): Yair, Thank you for your post. Is it possible to use Matlab functions inside the SQL query for method using sqlite-jdbc? I see here that you can create custom callback...
Yair Altman (71 days 23 hours ago): The default Java Look&Feel for UI buttons paints the border together with the contents, and apparently prevents changing both of them together (reference). Changing to a...
Jacob (72 days 9 hours ago): So, I’m having trouble finding information on this. If I change the border of a button, then change the background color, the border resets. Then I am not able to change the...