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Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 2

Non-standard shortcut controls and customizations can easily be added to the Matlab desktop.

December 30, 2015 6 Comments Read More »

Frameless (undecorated) figure windows

Matlab figure windows can be made undecorated (borderless, title-less).

March 19, 2015 12 Comments Read More »

checkClass

The checkClass utility enables easy listing of Java class methods.

June 11, 2014 No Comments Read More »

Assessing Java object size in Matlab

Java object sizes are not reported by Matlab, but we can still estimate them using two free external utilities.

January 29, 2014 No Comments Read More »

Variables Editor scrolling

The Matlab Variables Editor can be accessed to provide immediate scrolling to a specified cell location.

September 11, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Transparent Matlab figure window

Matlab figure windows can be made fully or partially transparent/translucent or blurred - this article explains how

April 13, 2011 18 Comments Read More »

setPrompt – Setting the Matlab Desktop prompt

The Matlab Desktop's Command-Window prompt can easily be modified using some undocumented features

January 25, 2010 15 Comments Read More »

Customizing Matlab's Workspace table

The Matlab Desktop's Workspace pane table can be customized, as described here

January 2, 2010 19 Comments Read More »

Customizing help popup contents

The built-in HelpPopup, available since Matlab R2007b, has a back-door that enables displaying arbitrary text, HTML and URL web-pages.

November 30, 2009 9 Comments Read More »

Accessing the Matlab Editor

The Matlab Editor can be accessed programmatically, for a wide variety of possible uses - this article shows how.

October 19, 2009 50 Comments Read More »
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  • Nicholas (7 days 4 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thanks for the reply. I am on Windows 10. I also forgot to mention that this all works wonderfully out of the editor. It only fails once compiled. So, yes, I have tried a...
  • Nicholas (7 days 4 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thanks for the reply. I am on Windows 10. I also forgot to mention that this all works wonderfully out of the editor. It only fails once compiled. So, yes, I have tried a...
  • Yair Altman (7 days 11 hours ago): Nicholas – yes, I used it in a compiled Windows app using R2022b (no update). You didn’t specify the Matlab code location that threw the error so I can’t help...
  • Nicholas (8 days 7 hours ago): Hi Yair, Have you attempted your displayWebPage utility (or the LightweightHelpPanel in general) within a compiled application? It appears to fail in apps derived from both R2022b...
  • João Neves (11 days 12 hours ago): I am on matlab 2021a, this still works: url = struct(struct(struct(struct(hF ig).Controller).PlatformHost). CEF).URL; but the html document is empty. Is there still a way to do...
  • Yair Altman (14 days 11 hours ago): Perhaps the class() function could assist you. Or maybe just wrap different access methods in a try-catch so that if one method fails you could access the data using another...
  • Jeroen Boschma (14 days 13 hours ago): Never mind, the new UI components have an HTML panel available. Works for me…
  • Alexandre (14 days 14 hours ago): Hi, Is there a way to test if data dictionnatry entry are signal, simulink parameters, variables … I need to access their value, but the access method depends on the data...
  • Nicholas (15 days 4 hours ago): In case anyone is looking for more info on the toolbar: I ran into some problems creating a toolbar with the lightweight panel. Previously, the Browser Panel had an addToolbar...
  • Jeroen Boschma (18 days 11 hours ago): I do not seem to get the scrollbars (horizontal…) working in Matlab 2020b. Snippets of init-code (all based on Yair’s snippets on this site) handles.text_explorer...
  • Yair Altman (46 days 14 hours ago): m_map is a mapping tool, not even created by MathWorks and not part of the basic Matlab system. I have no idea why you think that the customizations to the builtin bar function...
  • chengji chen (46 days 20 hours ago): Hi, I have tried the method, but it didn’t work. I plot figure by m_map toolbox, the xticklabel will add to the yticklabel at the left-down corner, so I want to move down...
  • Yair Altman (54 days 13 hours ago): @Alexander – this is correct. Matlab stopped including sqlite4java in R2021b (it was still included in 21a). You can download the open-source sqlite4java project from...
  • Alexander Eder (60 days 9 hours ago): Unfortunately Matlab stopped shipping sqlite4java starting with R2021(b?)
  • K (66 days 19 hours ago): Is there a way to programmatically manage which figure gets placed where? Let’s say I have 5 figures docked, and I split it into 2 x 1, I want to place 3 specific figures on the...
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