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- Héctor (13 hours 47 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 41 minutes ago): @Anubhav – try using Matlab’s built-in opentoline function
- Michelle (1 day 6 hours ago): Thank you!!
- 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...
- Marc (2 days 6 hours ago): Of course it’s good to profile first, then use this technique if warranted. Otherwise, write clear, simple code that’s...
- Ludwig (2 days 10 hours ago): Ok. Thanks a lot. I will see how far I get on my own before resorting to contacting you.
- 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...
- Ludwig (2 days 11 hours ago): Wow, didnt expect to hear back from you this fast or even at all. Thanks. What you describe sounds simple enough but I must admit I...
- Yair Altman (2 days 11 hours ago): @Chris & Richard: perhaps this is platform or situation dependent. On my Windows XP running both R2010b and R2012a,...
- 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: Listener
Tab panels – uitab and relatives
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
This article describes several undocumented Matlab functions that support tab-panels
Inactive Control Tooltips & Event Chaining
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Inactive Matlab uicontrols cannot normally display their tooltips. This article shows how to do this with a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks.
Categories: Guest bloggers, GUI, Handle graphics, Hidden property, Java, Listeners, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, Stock Matlab function, UI controls, Undocumented function
Tags: Callbacks, GUI, Handle graphics, Hidden property, Java, Listener, Matt Whitaker, uicontrol, Undocumented function
6 Comments
Tags: Callbacks, GUI, Handle graphics, Hidden property, Java, Listener, Matt Whitaker, uicontrol, Undocumented function
6 Comments
Continuous slider callback
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Matlab slider uicontrols do not enable a continuous-motion callback by default. This article explains how this can be achieved using undocumented features.
Categories: GUI, Java, Listeners, Medium risk of breaking in future versions, UI controls
Tags: Callbacks, FindJObj, GUI, Java, Listener, schema.prop, uicontrol, Undocumented feature
30 Comments
Tags: Callbacks, FindJObj, GUI, Java, Listener, schema.prop, uicontrol, Undocumented feature
30 Comments
setPrompt – Setting the Matlab Desktop prompt
Monday, January 25th, 2010
The Matlab Desktop’s Command-Window prompt can easily be modified using some undocumented features
Context-Sensitive Help
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Matlab has a hidden/unsupported built-in mechanism for easy implementation of context-sensitive help
Legend ‘-DynamicLegend’ semi-documented feature
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The built-in Matlab legend function has a very useful semi-documented feature for automatic dynamic update, which is explained here.