ActiveX

CheckboxList

Matlab listboxes can be enhanced with checkboxes next to each item.

September 10, 2014 22 Comments Read More »

Fixing Matlab's actxserver

Matlab's COM (ActiveX) server behavior can be fixed in a couple of useful manners.

December 19, 2012 6 Comments Read More »

xlswrite for Mac, Linux

Several Matlab utilities enable reading/writing spreadsheet data (including XLS files) in Macs, Linux.

August 2, 2012 9 Comments Read More »

Waiting for asynchronous events

The Matlab waitfor function can be used to wait for asynchronous Java/ActiveX events, as well as with timeouts.

July 18, 2012 33 Comments Read More »

Running VB code in Matlab

Matlab does not natively enable running VB code, but a nice trick enables us to do just that

July 20, 2011 14 Comments Read More »

COM/ActiveX tips & tricks

This article describes several little-known tips useful for COM / ActiveX programming in Matlab

July 28, 2010 6 Comments Read More »

Mohit (6 days 18 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 (8 days 17 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 (15 days 3 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 (30 days 19 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 (32 days 15 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;...
Yair Altman (34 days 16 hours ago): Thanks for sharing Joonas – this seems useful indeed. Users who will use your script are probably savvy Java programmers, who don’t need a reminder of the dangers in...
Joonas T. Holmi (34 days 16 hours ago): Yair and others, I found yet another way to add files to Java’s class path. See the function java_class_path_add_before_sta tic(file) below. Benefit of this new method...
Joonas T. Holmi (35 days 23 hours ago): Krishnan, It is ‘java.lang.System.getPro perty‘ and ‘java.lang.System.setPro perty‘. I read that JVM uses ‘java.class.path’ content only...
claudio (43 days 9 hours ago): Hi Yair i’m trying to set default string in DateComboBox to display before selecting date from date panel jElement.getEditor.getEditorCo mponent.setText('Set default date')...
Loren Shure (48 days 17 hours ago): Hi Yair- Very nice example showing people how to delve in – plus a nice heads up for us to always go back and look at our shipping code. Probably feval was the only option...
Michelle Hirsch (51 days 10 hours ago): Thanks Yair, as always, for the thoughtful post. I’ve forwarded it to the folks from both the Statistics team and the Performance team for their input. Happy Pesach!
Maurizio (66 days 12 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 (68 days 12 hours ago): Hi Yair, it seems that in Matlab R2019b this method doesn’t work. Have you some solutions? Thanks.
Maurizio (69 days 22 hours ago): Thank you Yair, I’ve supposed it, but I was not sure. Maurizio
Yair Altman (70 days 13 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...