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 35 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 59 Comments Read More »

Nicholas (4 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...
Nicholas (4 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 (4 days 14 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 (5 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...
João Neves (8 days 15 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 (11 days 14 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 (11 days 17 hours ago): Never mind, the new UI components have an HTML panel available. Works for me…
Alexandre (11 days 18 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 (12 days 8 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 (15 days 15 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 (43 days 17 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 (43 days 23 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 (51 days 16 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 (57 days 12 hours ago): Unfortunately Matlab stopped shipping sqlite4java starting with R2021(b?)
K (63 days 23 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...