Monthly Archive: April 2009

Button customization

Matlab's button uicontrols (pushbutton and togglebutton) are basically wrappers for a Java Swing JButton object. This post describes how the buttons can be customized using this Java object in ways

April 24, 2009 33 Comments Read More »

Spy Easter egg

The built-in Matlab function spy has an undocumented feature (Easter egg) when it is called with no input arguments.

April 11, 2009 4 Comments Read More »

ismembc – undocumented helper function

Matlab has several undocumented internal helper functions that can be useful on their own in some cases. This post presents the ismembc function.

April 8, 2009 14 Comments Read More »

Undocumented profiler options

The Matlab profiler has some undocumented options that facilitate debugging memory bottlenecks and JIT (Just-In-Time Java compilation) problems.

April 2, 2009 23 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (5 days 7 hours ago): You can try to increase the Java heap memory size in the Matlab preferences (General => Java Heap Memory). Any changes to the settings will only take effect after restarting...
Thomas (5 days 9 hours ago): Hello, thanks for sharing! I currently receive the following memory error message when using savezip with a big object (Matlab R2020b, Windows 10). Error using...
Yair Altman (8 days 16 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (8 days 19 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (9 days 23 hours ago): Hello Mr. Altman, how can I disable menu items in the context menu? E.g. when I am trying to do this: menuItems = jmenu.getSubElements; menuItem1 = menuItems(1);...
Yair Altman (10 days 16 hours ago): Thanks for the note Eric – you forgot the crucial call to jTable.setLabelTable(labelTabl e) – I added it into your code snippet above.
Erik (12 days 3 hours ago): Thank you for this — I don’t know if this has been mentioned anywhere else before, but it could be useful to mention how to add custom labels to a jslider. I did the...
turhv (24 days 21 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
Jianfei (58 days 1 hour ago): I have tried the MathWorks CheckBoxList in Matlab 2015b. For whatever the reason, I can’t change the font properties. I can change the font color, but changing font properties...
Donato Coppola (63 days 20 hours ago): Hi Yair, I have a problem with the double format. When I run the treeTable function, the numbers in double format cells are displayed with comma as decimal separator. How can...
Kim (69 days 10 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (71 days 12 hours ago): Thank you for the blog, it was useful for me. I have a file named App_project.mlapp.zip and when I extract it through Winzip it gives all the files exactly as you described above. I...
Mr Ashley Trowell (73 days 22 hours ago): Thank you so much for this analysis. Also, I find it somewhat horrifying. The take away seems to be to use && / || and NOT and / or. Thanks a bunch! ~Ashley
Matt (78 days 23 hours ago): Late reply I know, but you can call custom shortcuts with alt-#. Hold down Alt to see what number is assigned to the shortcuts you’ve created. Now if there was a way to create a...
James (86 days 18 hours ago): Is there a way to change the location of the window? They pop up at random locations and the user has to chase them down.