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Accessing the Matlab Editor

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

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October 19, 2009 50 Comments

Updating speaker sound volume

Matlab enables setting the speaker volume via documented Java calls

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October 15, 2009 9 Comments

Performance: scatter vs. line

In many circumstances, the line function can generate visually-identical plots as the scatter function, much faster

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October 14, 2009 4 Comments

Undocumented scatter plot behavior

The scatter plot function has an undocumented behavior when plotting more than 100 points: it returns a single unified patch object handle, rather than a patch handle for each specific point as it returns with 100 or less points.

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October 12, 2009 18 Comments

uicontrol side-effect: removing figure toolbar

Matlab’s built-in uicontrol function has a side-effect of removing the figure toolbar. This was undocumented until lately. This article describes the side-effect behavior and how to fix it.

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October 7, 2009 No Comments

Undocumented mouse pointer functions

Matlab contains several well-documented functions and properties for the mouse pointer. However, some very-useful functions have remained undocumented and unsupported. This post details their usage.

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September 24, 2009 33 Comments

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.

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September 9, 2009 41 Comments

R2009b keyboard bindings

The new Matlab release R2009b includes the ability to customize keyboard bindings for the editor and Command Window. However, there are still some uses for the EditorMacro utility and its variants.

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September 6, 2009 No Comments

Figure toolbar customizations

Matlab’s toolbars can be customized using a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks. This article describes how to customize the Matlab figure toolbar.

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September 2, 2009 24 Comments

Figure toolbar components

Matlab’s toolbars can be customized using a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks. This article describes how to access existing toolbar icons and how to add non-button toolbar components.

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August 27, 2009 50 Comments

EditorMacro v2 – setting Command Window key-bindings

The EditorMacro utility was extended to support built-in Matlab Editor and Command-Window actions and key-bindings. This post describes the changes and the implementation details.

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August 20, 2009 4 Comments

Setting listbox mouse actions

Matlab listbox uicontrol can be modified to detect mouse events for right-click context menus, dynamic tooltips etc.

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August 13, 2009 34 Comments

Context-Sensitive Help

Matlab has a hidden/unsupported built-in mechanism for easy implementation of context-sensitive help

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August 5, 2009 10 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

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July 30, 2009 20 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.

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July 23, 2009 64 Comments

Non-textual editor actions

The UIINSPECT utility can be used to expand EditorMacro capabilities to non-text-insertion actions. This is how:

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July 17, 2009 10 Comments

BlinkDagger – the end?

In his latest post on BlinkDagger, Quan Quach announced that the BlinkDagger blog will be frozen following co-author Daniel Sutoyo’s hiring by The MathWorks and the continuous strain of maintaining the blog single-handedly. This is sad news indeed for the Matlab user community. Over the past few years, BlinkDagger has

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July 8, 2009 2 Comments

EditorMacro – assign a keyboard macro in the Matlab editor

EditorMacro is a new utility that enables setting keyboard macros in the Matlab editor. this post details its inner workings.

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July 1, 2009 24 Comments

Setting the Matlab desktop layout programmatically

The Matlab desktop enables saving and switching layouts using the main menu. This post shows how to do so programmatically.

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June 24, 2009 6 Comments

Changing system preferences programmatically

Matlab user/system preferences can be changed programmatically, from within your Matlab application or from the Matlab desktop command prompt. This post details how.

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June 17, 2009 16 Comments

GUIDE customization

Matlab’s GUI Design Editor (GUIDE) has several interesting undocumented features. This post describes how to customize GUIDE rulers.

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June 10, 2009 8 Comments

Legend '-DynamicLegend' semi-documented feature

The built-in Matlab legend function has a very useful semi-documented feature for automatic dynamic update, which is explained here.

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June 4, 2009 21 Comments

Spicing up Matlab uicontrol tooltips

Matlab uicontrol tooltips can be spiced-up using HTML and CSS, including fonts, colors, tables and images

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May 27, 2009 20 Comments

tic / toc – undocumented option

Matlab’s built-in tic/toc functions have an undocumented option enabling multiple nested clockings

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May 22, 2009 15 Comments

cprintf – display formatted color text in the Command Window

cprintf is a utility that utilized undocumented Matlab desktop functionalities to display color and underline-styled formatted text in the Command Window

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May 13, 2009 55 Comments
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Recent Comments
  • Alessandro Beda (8 days 2 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 (9 days 16 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 (13 days 11 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 (13 days 23 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 (18 days 0 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 (18 days 2 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 (21 days 14 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
  • Yair Altman (30 days 12 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 (30 days 13 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 (31 days 22 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 (31 days 23 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 (40 days 2 hours ago): Dear Iliya, remove uibutton, instead of using the “WindowButtonDownFcnR 21; of uifigure is working for me.
  • Nicholas (49 days 13 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 (49 days 20 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 (50 days 17 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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