Category Archives: Low risk of breaking in future versions

Unlikely to break in future Matlab versions. Usually indicates a supported but mis-documented feature or a feature in very wide use throughout the Matlab system. If it does break in a future Matlab version, then a warning message is likely to appear before the feature completely breaks in some yet-more-future version.

Multi-line tooltips

Multi-line tooltips are very easy to set up, once you know your way around a few undocumented hiccups.

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Javacomponent background color

This article explains how to align Java component background color with a Matlab color.

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datestr performance

Caching is a simple and very effective means to improve code performance, as demonstrated for the datestr function.

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Reading non-Latin text files

A workaround that enables reading non-Latin text files in Matlab is shown

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Bug and workaround in timeseries plot

Matlab’s internal hgconvertunits function has a bug that affects timeseries plots. Luckily there is a simple workaround.

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Matlab installation woes

Matlab has some issues when installing a new version. This post discusses some of them and how to overcome them.

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