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GUI automation utilities

This article explains a couple of Matlab utilities that use Java’s Robot class to programmatically control mouse and keyboard actions

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September 22, 2010 7 Comments

GUI automation using a Robot

This article explains how Java’s Robot class can be used to programmatically control mouse and keyboard actions

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September 15, 2010 34 Comments

Docs of old Matlab releases

MathWorks recently posted archived documentation for many previous Matlab releases

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September 7, 2010 7 Comments

Customizing uitree nodes – part 2

This article shows how Matlab GUI tree nodes can be customized with checkboxes and similar controls

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September 1, 2010 61 Comments

Customizing uitree nodes – part 1

This article describes how to customize specific nodes of Matlab GUI tree controls created using the undocumented uitree function

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August 25, 2010 33 Comments

Customizing uitree

This article describes how to customize Matlab GUI tree controls created using the undocumented uitree function

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August 18, 2010 44 Comments

uitree

This article describes the undocumented Matlab uitree function, which displays data in a GUI tree component

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August 11, 2010 80 Comments

The javacomponent function

Matlab’s built-in javacomponent function can be used to display Java components in Matlab application – this article details its usages and limitations

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August 4, 2010 68 Comments

COM/ActiveX tips & tricks

This article describes several little-known tips useful for COM / ActiveX programming in Matlab

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July 28, 2010 6 Comments

Matlab DDE support

Windows DDE is an unsupported and undocumented feature of Matlab, that can be used to improve the work-flow in the Windows environment

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July 21, 2010 7 Comments

Syntax highlighted labels & panels

Syntax-highlighted labels and edit-boxes can easily be displayed in Matlab GUI – this article explains how.

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July 14, 2010 20 Comments

Modifying Matlab's Look-and-Feel

Matlab’s entire Look-and-Feel (PLAF, or L&F) can be modified at the control or application level – this article shows how

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July 7, 2010 53 Comments

Date selection components

The JIDE package, pre-bundled in Matlab, contains several GUI controls for selecting dates – this article explains how they can be used

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June 30, 2010 79 Comments

Tab panels – uitab and relatives

This article describes several undocumented Matlab functions that support tab-panels

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June 23, 2010 116 Comments

Plot performance

Undocumented inner plot mechanisms can significantly improve plotting performance

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June 16, 2010 36 Comments

Matlab layout managers: uicontainer and relatives

Matlab contains a few undocumented GUI layout managers, which greatly facilitate handling GUI components in dynamically-changing figures.

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June 9, 2010 25 Comments

Modifying default toolbar/menubar actions

The default Matlab figure toolbar and menu actions can easily be modified using simple pure-Matlab code. This article explains how.

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June 2, 2010 9 Comments

JMI wrapper – remote MatlabControl

An example using matlabcontrol for calling Matlab from a separate Java process is explained.

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May 26, 2010 29 Comments

JMI wrapper – local MatlabControl part 2

An example using matlabcontrol for calling Matlab from within a Java class is explained and discussed

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May 19, 2010 9 Comments

JMI wrapper – local MatlabControl part 1

MatlabControl is an open-source wrapper of JMI that allows an easy and documented way to communicate from Java to Matlab. This article describes this wrapper.

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May 12, 2010 6 Comments

New information on HG2

More information on Matlab’s new HG2 object-oriented handle-graphics system

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May 10, 2010 1 Comment

Matlab's HG2 mechanism

HG2 is presumably the next generation of Matlab graphics. This article tries to explore its features.

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May 7, 2010 13 Comments

Undocumented feature() function

Matlab’s undocumented feature function enables access to some internal experimental features

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May 4, 2010 27 Comments

Advanced JIDE Property Grids

JIDE property grids can use complex cell renderer and editor components and can signal property change events asynchronously to Matlab callbacks

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April 21, 2010 54 Comments

JIDE Property Grids

The JIDE components pre-bundled in Matlab enable creating user-customized property grid tables

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April 21, 2010 17 Comments
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Recent Comments
  • Alessandro Beda (9 days 20 hours ago): I found what I think is a bug related to this (tested in R2022 and R2023a). If I add a “ButtonDownFcn” to the plots (see example below), then the modified...
  • Nicholas (11 days 10 hours ago): Yair, Changing the desktop help options did not solve the issue. Though, it’s unclear how I could change these options in the Runtime, if that’s what you meant? I should...
  • Yair Altman (15 days 6 hours ago): @Francisco – this is one of those cases where you should ask MathWorks support. After all, you’re trying to use a supported Matlab functionality when you encountered...
  • Francisco Campos (15 days 17 hours ago): Hello, thanks for all your work that has been immensely useful for those working in the Matlab environment. I have been trying to replace matlabcontrol with the official...
  • Yair Altman (19 days 18 hours ago): Kei – this is possible, I believe that I saw this ability somewhere, a few years ago. I don’t remember exactly where, it will require a bit of research, but...
  • Kei (19 days 21 hours ago): Hello Yair Thank you for this great article. I would like to freeze first two columns in uitable. Do you know if such option is available? Since looks like this option is not available...
  • Andrés Aguilar (23 days 8 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
  • Yair Altman (32 days 6 hours ago): I posted my treeTable utility 10 years ago for anyone to use freely, on an as-is basis, without any warranty, updates or support. If you need any customization or assistance...
  • JY (32 days 7 hours ago): Yair, could you respond to this question please? I’m also finding it difficult to implement such a multi-hierarchy table. Thanks
  • Yair Altman (33 days 17 hours ago): To debug uifigures in an external browser (e.g. to see the internal HTML/CSS) we need to first set Matlab to enable such debugging. I updated Step #2 above with the relevant...
  • Yair Altman (33 days 17 hours ago): The error indicates that the LightweightHelpPanel exists, but fails to load due to some funky preference of your deployed Help documentation. Try to set your Matlab...
  • Ba (41 days 20 hours ago): Dear Iliya, remove uibutton, instead of using the “WindowButtonDownFcnR 21; of uifigure is working for me.
  • Nicholas (51 days 7 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 (51 days 15 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 (52 days 11 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...
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