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- Héctor (13 hours 44 minutes ago): I run on windows 7, Matlab R2010a. My Matlab has been doing things for 2 days and was release from heavy duty 5 minutes ago. This...
- Yair Altman (19 hours 38 minutes ago): @Anubhav – try using Matlab’s built-in opentoline function
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- Daniel (1 day 15 hours ago): I can recreate Yair’s differences between data1 = zeros(1000,3000); and data2(1000,3000) = 0; on 32-bit Windows XP 32 with...
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- Yair Altman (2 days 10 hours ago): @Ludwig – I don’t believe that there is any specific place that explains this in detail for uitabgroup. If you...
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- Yair Altman (2 days 11 hours ago): @Ludwig – SelectionChangeFcn is a property of the uitabgroup. You can create your own callback function and set...
Tag Archives: JavaFrame
Enable/disable entire figure window
Disabling/enabling an entire figure window is impossible with pure Matlab, but is very simple using the underlying Java. This article explains how.
Categories: Figure window, GUI, Hidden property, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions
Tags: GUI, Hidden property, Internal component, Java, JavaFrame
8 Comments
Tags: GUI, Hidden property, Internal component, Java, JavaFrame
8 Comments
FindJObj – find a Matlab component’s underlying Java object
The FindJObj utility can be used to access and display the internal components of Matlab controls and containers. This article explains its uses and inner mechanism.
Detecting window focus events
Matlab does not have any documented method to detect window focus events (gain/loss). This article describes an undocumented way to detect such events.
Categories: Figure window, GUI, Hidden property, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions
Tags: FindJObj, GUI, Hidden property, Java, JavaFrame, UIInspect
24 Comments
Tags: FindJObj, GUI, Hidden property, Java, JavaFrame, UIInspect
24 Comments
Setting status-bar components
Matlab status-bars are Java containers in which we can add GUI controls such as progress-bars, not just simple text labels
Categories: Figure window, GUI, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions
Tags: FindJObj, GUI, Java, JavaFrame
2 Comments
Tags: FindJObj, GUI, Java, JavaFrame
2 Comments
Setting status-bar text
The Matlab desktop and figure windows have a usable statusbar which can only be set using undocumented methods. This post shows how to set the status-bar text.
Categories: Desktop, Figure window, GUI, Java, Medium risk of breaking in future versions
Tags: Desktop, FindJObj, GUI, Java, JavaFrame, uitools
12 Comments
Tags: Desktop, FindJObj, GUI, Java, JavaFrame, uitools
12 Comments
Displaying hidden handle properties
I present two ways of checking undocumented hidden properties in Matlab Handle Graphics (HG) handles