Comments on: HTML support in Matlab uicomponents

By: Uitable cell colors | Undocumented Matlab

Uitable cell colors | Undocumented Matlab — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:37:40 +0000

[...] have used HTML to format the header labels into two rows, to enable compact columns. I have already described using HTML formatting in Matlab controls in several articles on this website. [...]

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:40:41 +0000

@LL – your question is not understood. Be more specific

By: LL

LL — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:46:27 +0000

Hi,
How to pass a variable in the element?
var
for example: I have
var = 10;

By: Aurélien

Aurélien — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:43:59 +0000

Hi Yair,

Just a note about using HTML within uicontrols:

I use a lot of HTML code for my uicontrols . The only drawback I have found is when you decide to set enable off one of them. For example :

f = uimenu('Label','Workspace');
h_ui = uimenu(f,'Label','New Figure','enable','off');

As the ForegroundColor of “New Figure” label is still in red it is not clear that the label is disabled. I would expect to see the label in grey.

Currently I remove HTML tags as follows:

set(rr,'Label',regexprep(get(rr,'Label'),' ]*>', ''),'enable','off')

Note: The regular expression does not display correctly on your site, I am using this one from this tech-note:
How can I read an HTML file into MATLAB and discard the HTML tags?

Except this drawback , using HTML in uicontrols is easy and makes GUIs to be more pretty.

Aurélien

By: Customizing uitree nodes – part 1 | Undocumented Matlab

Customizing uitree nodes – part 1 | Undocumented Matlab — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:34:49 +0000

[...] names share the same HTML support feature as all Java Swing labels. Therefore, we can specify font size/face/color, bold, italic, underline, [...]

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:29:03 +0000

You can use HTML to set popup menu items to gray-italic, but you can’t prevent the user from clicking these items. In your callback, simply ignore any clicks made on your “uselectable” items.

By: Fil

Fil — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:21:59 +0000

Thanks Yair,

So there is no way to create a popupmenu with unselectable options using Matlab or Java?

Thanks for your help,
Fil

By: Yair Altman

Yair Altman — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:41:35 +0000

@Fil – You can use HTML to define separate item colors (see the example in the main article above), but you can’t define unselectable items.

By: Fil

Fil — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:57:17 +0000

Dear all,

Was just wondering if using this technique I would be able to make some options in a popupmenu change colour and more importantly unselectable?

Thanks for your invaluable help with this website.

Fil.

By: Tabbed panes – uitab and relatives | Undocumented Matlab

Tabbed panes – uitab and relatives | Undocumented Matlab — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:53:02 +0000

[...] remember that HTML is accepted just as in any other Swing-based label [...]