Comments on: Changing Matlab’s Command Window colors

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:12:49 +0000

Hi Yair.. I just saw your reply.. Thanks for the help! )

Cheers!

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:11:40 +0000

OK.. The following code worked:

jTextArea.setBackground(java.awt.Color.lightGray);
jTextArea.setBackground(java.awt.Color(.95,.95,.95));
set(jTextArea,'Background','lightGray');
set(jTextArea,'Background',[.95,.95,.95]);

I was using "gray" instead of "lightGray"..

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:57:08 +0000

@Raj – try java.awt.Color(0.827,0.827,0.827)

By: Raj

Raj — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:54:07 +0000

Hi,

I ran the java commands as above. But only the color of the function browser (thin strip on the left side of the command window) changed. It became yellow and I couldn’t get it back to gray. So I had to change it to white. Maybe it is a compatibility issue with the new Matlab.

I don’t know java so if you can help out in how to revert back to the original gray (light gray) color, that would be awesome.

Also, isn’t the range of java.awt.Color from 0-255.
Because gray is 211-211-211. And I am not able to enter that. Even 0.83 (211/255) didn’t work.

I would appreciate any help.
Thanks for the tutorial!

By: Anubhav Jain

Anubhav Jain — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:59:21 +0000

Hi,
I am facing problem in hiliting a line that is not connected to any block.Can anyone suggest me a way to do that .
Regards,
Anubhav Jain.

By: Jakub

Jakub — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:17:59 +0000

you saved my eyes, thanks

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:30:43 +0000

Take a look at this recent blog article: http://undocumentedmatlab.com/blog/transparent-matlab-figure-window/

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:36:29 +0000

@Jan - I believe that the figure title bar colors cannot be modified without hacking into the underlying OS. This is because Matlab uses java to draw the figure window, and Java in turn uses the underlying OS to set the appearance.However, you can customize your Look-and-Feel if you are adventurous...

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:18:39 +0000

Hi,

I’ve been trying to change the Title name string color to say green and the figure title bar color to say yellow so they match the company colors. Haven’t had much luck as neither is an option in Figure Properties. Did find that both follow the Windows Display Properties. Looked into the “matlab.prf” file but did not see any obvious fields to edit.

Is it possible to edit the before mentioned colors?

Thanks,

Jan

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:43:21 +0000

@Egon - see here