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 »

Tommy (10 days 2 hours ago): Just adding my implementation inspired by Sebastian and i3v. It handles the state reset that occurs when uimode changes. Also, has options to ignore/append for specific modes....
Niko (14 days 17 hours ago): Hi, Has anyone acomplished to install Andreas’ tool for Matlab version ‘9.11.0.1809720 (R2021b) Update 1’ or higher? I think the fact that Matlab now uses the stupid...
Gabriel (36 days 13 hours ago): This didn’t work when trying to link y axes across the plots in each column and x axes across the plots in each row on an (m x n) tiledlayout. On matlab R2021a found that I...
Ana Gomez (64 days 23 hours ago): I understand Yair, Thank you very much for all your valuable assistance. I think I can manage with the options I have now, but I will contact you as professional consultant if I...
Yair Altman (67 days 11 hours ago): @Ana – it appears that you need to customize a complex GUI, and require more than simple answers to simple queries, which is beyond the scope of a blog Q&A....
Ana Gomez (69 days 13 hours ago): Thank you very much Yair. yes I was doing something wrong. I was able to remove the root now 🙂 As you say I am using the Java-based component, in a Matlab 2016b, quite old, but...
Yair Altman (71 days 8 hours ago): Ana, I believe that you are mistaken. Assuming you’re using the Java-based (not the new web-based) checkboxtree component (as described in https://undocumentedmatlab....
Ana Gomez (71 days 17 hours ago): Thank you for the prompt answer! Is this also possible with checkboxtree? Because I am having some trouble with the method setRootVisible in this case. No method...
Yair Altman (71 days 18 hours ago): @Ana – mtree.Tree.setRootVisible(fals e)
Ana Gomez (71 days 19 hours ago): Good morning Yair, and thanks for these really useful series 🙂 I am wondering if it is possible to create this tree but without the “root”, I mean, in your example,...
Peter (78 days 19 hours ago): It’s working! THANK YOU!!
Yair Altman (79 days 9 hours ago): @Peter – tab heights are set by the Operating System’s Look and Feel. You can either change the Look-and-Feel used by Matlab, or use the much larger tabs in the GUI...
Peter (79 days 9 hours ago): Hello again Mr. Altman and thank you for all you work and help! I have a question. I want to resize the TABS, i mean the small things at the top, that says “tab1,...
Yair Altman (80 days 18 hours ago): @Santiago – AFAIK you cannot parent a Matlab uimenu or uitoolbar to a uitab. However, you can add Java components (in your case, JMenuBar and JToolBar) using the...
Yair Altman (80 days 19 hours ago): @Peter – you can modify the scrollbars by accessing them directly. For example: % Create a multi-line (Max>1) editbox uicontrol hEditbox = uicontrol('style','edit',...