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 »

Mohit (21 hours 1 minute ago): Hi Yair, I am trying to change keybindings to certain keys for many systems is there any way that we can change these settings. i can change in window dialogue like...
Jan Kappen (2 days 20 hours ago): @Eric, I’m just curious, is the new chart container class (https://de.mathworks.com/help /matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.ch artcontainer.chartcontainer-cl ass.html) the...
Sam (9 days 6 hours ago): Doesn’t work for me! I am using Matlab 2018a, no different at all, even the exe file size is the same.
Joonas T. Holmi (24 days 22 hours ago): Very good comment Yair! I posted the above function too hastily… I will have to apologize for claiming above that it allows updating MATLAB’s jar files without...
Yair Altman (26 days 18 hours ago): @Claudio – I don’t know exactly what you did in your code, the following works perfectly fine for me on R2020a: jComponent = com.jidesoft.combobox.DateComb oBox;...
Yair Altman (28 days 18 hours ago): Thanks for sharing Joonas – this seems useful indeed. Users who will use your script are probably savvy Java programmers, who don’t need a reminder of the dangers in...
Joonas T. Holmi (28 days 18 hours ago): Yair and others, I found yet another way to add files to Java’s class path. See the function java_class_path_add_before_sta tic(file) below. Benefit of this new method...
Joonas T. Holmi (30 days 2 hours ago): Krishnan, It is ‘java.lang.System.getPro perty‘ and ‘java.lang.System.setPro perty‘. I read that JVM uses ‘java.class.path’ content only...
claudio (37 days 12 hours ago): Hi Yair i’m trying to set default string in DateComboBox to display before selecting date from date panel jElement.getEditor.getEditorCo mponent.setText('Set default date')...
Loren Shure (42 days 20 hours ago): Hi Yair- Very nice example showing people how to delve in – plus a nice heads up for us to always go back and look at our shipping code. Probably feval was the only option...
Michelle Hirsch (45 days 13 hours ago): Thanks Yair, as always, for the thoughtful post. I’ve forwarded it to the folks from both the Statistics team and the Performance team for their input. Happy Pesach!
Maurizio (60 days 14 hours ago): Hi Yair, how can I define a callback for a cell/row/column selection? In createTable you can define a data changed callback, but if you simply select a cell, how can you define a...
Donato (62 days 15 hours ago): Hi Yair, it seems that in Matlab R2019b this method doesn’t work. Have you some solutions? Thanks.
Maurizio (64 days 1 hour ago): Thank you Yair, I’ve supposed it, but I was not sure. Maurizio
Yair Altman (64 days 15 hours ago): headers is a simple cell array of strings (column header names). I thought that was pretty obvious from the context… Additional types of uitable customizations are...