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uiundo – Matlab's undocumented undo/redo manager

The built-in uiundo function provides easy yet undocumented access to Matlab's powerful undo/redo functionality. This article explains its usage.

October 29, 2009 2 Comments Read More »

uicontrol side-effect: removing figure toolbar

Matlab's built-in uicontrol function has a side-effect of removing the figure toolbar. This was undocumented until lately. This article describes the side-effect behavior and how to fix it.

October 7, 2009 No Comments Read More »

Figure toolbar customizations

Matlab's toolbars can be customized using a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks. This article describes how to customize the Matlab figure toolbar.

September 2, 2009 24 Comments Read More »

Matlab's toolbars can be customized using a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks. This article describes how to access existing toolbar icons and how to add non-button toolbar components.

August 27, 2009 48 Comments Read More »

Maurizio (10 days 0 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 (12 days 0 hours ago): Hi Yair, it seems that in Matlab R2019b this method doesn’t work. Have you some solutions? Thanks.
Maurizio (13 days 11 hours ago): Thank you Yair, I’ve supposed it, but I was not sure. Maurizio
Yair Altman (14 days 1 hour 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 (14 days 1 hour 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 (17 days 3 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 (30 days 9 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 10 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 (34 days 5 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 (53 days 9 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 (57 days 10 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 11 hours 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 (64 days 4 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 (72 days 10 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 20 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...