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 6 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 »

Mike (1 day 21 hours ago): Yair, It may be July 2020 but at my company we are still using R2013b! This article was instrumental in helping me to accomplish my work. Thanks! Mike
Jan (9 days 17 hours ago): The sad thing is that only old functions can be delved into like that. Many new functions or classes are hidden in p-code encrypted files which is a bummer. Plus they are sealed (in...
Muhammad Muaaz (16 days 4 hours ago): Kindly ignore the previous msg, I did not mention the data type while reading the file. It works prefect. Thanks.
Muhammad Muaaz (16 days 4 hours ago): Great post! I use the example you provided on Matlab 2019b, and I am getting similar results on speed. However, I noticed that if we read the file back (no matter if it is...
Adam Langer (18 days 18 hours ago): Hi Yair, I had no doubt you would find other ways to keep busy if you were not heading to the States this spring. It will only make a small difference since in your example this...
spencer (23 days 17 hours ago): Thanks for your reply, Yair. I am trying to find a workaround to replace uigetdir. Below setting in the code can help to select folder and file together. hjFileChooser.setFileSele...
Yair Altman (23 days 17 hours ago): Folder selection can be done using the uigetdir function
spencer (24 days 11 hours ago): Thanks, Yair. I am not familiar with Java, is there any easiest way to modified it for folder selection? thanks
Ajay Krishna (27 days 9 hours ago): Is it possible to add custom data tip for simulink blocks without using the description or Block Name or parameter names and values.To make my statement clear i want to add...
Ana Gomez (31 days 9 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thank you for this interesting post, I am finding it really useful. However I am facing an issue that I am not able to solve. I am using DateComboBox to select a date. I...
Mohit (44 days 3 hours ago): Hi Yair, I am trying to change keybindings to certain keys for many systems is there any way that we can change these settings. i can change in window dialogue like...
Jan Kappen (46 days 2 hours ago): @Eric, I’m just curious, is the new chart container class (https://de.mathworks.com/help /matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.ch artcontainer.chartcontainer-cl ass.html) the...
Sam (52 days 12 hours ago): Doesn’t work for me! I am using Matlab 2018a, no different at all, even the exe file size is the same.
Joonas T. Holmi (68 days 4 hours ago): Very good comment Yair! I posted the above function too hastily… I will have to apologize for claiming above that it allows updating MATLAB’s jar files without...
Yair Altman (70 days 0 hours ago): @Claudio – I don’t know exactly what you did in your code, the following works perfectly fine for me on R2020a: jComponent = com.jidesoft.combobox.DateComb oBox;...