Monthly Archive: March 2009

Setting system tray popup messages

System-tray icons and messages can be programmatically set and controlled from within Matlab, using new functionality available since R2007b.

March 31, 2009 21 Comments Read More »

UISplitPane

UISplitPane was recently chosen as Matlab Central's Pick of the Week. Here I detail its use of some undocumented Matlab features.

March 28, 2009 18 Comments Read More »

Adding a context-menu to a uitree

uitree is an undocumented Matlab function, which does not easily enable setting a context-menu. Here's how to do it.

March 27, 2009 33 Comments Read More »

Setting line position in an edit-box uicontrol

Matlab uicontrols have many useful features that are only available via Java. Here's how to access them.

March 26, 2009 21 Comments Read More »

Setting system tray icons

System-tray icons can be programmatically set and controlled from within Matlab, using new functionality available since R2007b.

March 24, 2009 15 Comments Read More »

HTML support in Matlab uicomponents

Matlab uicomponents support HTML and CSS, enabling colored items, superscript/subscript, fonts, bold/italic/underline and many other modifications

March 21, 2009 69 Comments Read More »

Changing Matlab's Command Window colors

Matlab's Command Window foreground and background colors can be modified programmatically, using some of Matlab's undocumented internal Java classes. Here's how.

March 19, 2009 114 Comments Read More »

Matthias Brenneis (2 days 4 hours ago): Hi, thank you so much for the inspiring work and comments! My issue is: As soon as the panel gets an axes, the panel is no longer transparent: f =...
Collin (22 days 2 hours ago): Yair, In 2020a Mathworks added this semi-useful class matlab.ui.internal.JavaMigrati onTools Which contains static methods to call javacomponent, actxcontrol or to get an...
Yair Altman (25 days 11 hours ago): @Pierre – thanks for sharing this clever useful trick
Pierre (25 days 11 hours ago): Hello, This post has been really useful to me. I just want to share a small trick. I have no idea whether it is reproducible or how it works, but it does the job for me (Win 10,...
Hannes (32 days 9 hours ago): It is also not working for me on R2019a Update 5. Best Hannes.
Yair Altman (37 days 7 hours ago): @Peter – the graphics system might not be fully initialized by the time that the startup script is being executed by the Matlab engine. I suggest placing the relevant code...
Philip (37 days 12 hours ago): Yair, How would I implement a renderer for com.jidesoft.combobox.DateSpin nerComboBox so that the editor remains the same (combo box with spinner) but the renderer displays as a...
Reza (37 days 17 hours ago): Yair, I found the solution by using “hFills(i).StripDataR 21;. Thanks
Reza (37 days 20 hours ago): Hi Yair, There is “VertexData” in property of “TriangleStrip .FacePrims”, but there is no information about patch “faces” that can connect vertices...
Peter (40 days 1 hour ago): I have a problem with putting this into the startup.m to be executed at the beginning of the MATLAB session. jDesktop = com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDeskt op.getInstance; try cmdWin =...
Alex (45 days 9 hours ago): Hi, I was wondering if there is a possibility to integrate a text field with label and another table in one cell of the tree table, or is it restricted to ComboBoxes and Checkboxes? Is...
Jan (53 days 3 hours ago): Is there a reason why this function was removed from the Matlab File Exchange? I prefer a simplified DBSTACK solution: function flag = isMultipleCall() s = dbstack(); flag = (numel(s) >...
geetha (53 days 11 hours ago): Hi am uitree and some line am getting this error error in @(tree,evd)evalin('base',sprin tf(['ldp_temp_blockhandle=%.20 f;','set(ldp_temp_blockhandle, ''UserData'',setfield(get(l...
matse (55 days 5 hours ago): Thanks for the post – I love your blog! It seems that – at least in 2020a – it is also possible to have the functionSignatures.json in a subfolder named resources....
Harry (61 days 23 hours ago): Andi, you are such a tease! There are questions dotted around the web (including on this page) of people asking how to change the Quick-Access Toolbar programmatically, and getting no...