Monthly Archive: May 2009

Spicing up Matlab uicontrol tooltips

Matlab uicontrol tooltips can be spiced-up using HTML and CSS, including fonts, colors, tables and images

May 27, 2009 20 Comments Read More »

tic / toc – undocumented option

Matlab's built-in tic/toc functions have an undocumented option enabling multiple nested clockings

May 22, 2009 15 Comments Read More »

cprintf – display formatted color text in the Command Window

cprintf is a utility that utilized undocumented Matlab desktop functionalities to display color and underline-styled formatted text in the Command Window

May 13, 2009 55 Comments Read More »

cellfun – undocumented performance boost

Matlab's built-in cellfun function has an undocumented option to significantly improve performance in some cases.

May 11, 2009 17 Comments Read More »

Changing Matlab's Command Window colors – part 2

The Matlab Command Window enables a limited degree of inline color customization - this post describes how to use it

May 9, 2009 9 Comments Read More »

Displaying hidden handle properties

I present two ways of checking undocumented hidden properties in Matlab Handle Graphics (HG) handles

May 5, 2009 15 Comments Read More »

Uicontrol callbacks

This post details undocumented callbacks exposed by the underlying Java object of Matlab uicontrols, that can be used to modify the control's behavior in a multitude of different events

May 1, 2009 69 Comments Read More »

Nicholas (7 days 4 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 (7 days 4 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 (7 days 11 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 (8 days 7 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 (11 days 12 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 (14 days 11 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 (14 days 13 hours ago): Never mind, the new UI components have an HTML panel available. Works for me…
Alexandre (14 days 14 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 (15 days 4 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 (18 days 11 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 (46 days 14 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 (46 days 20 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 (54 days 13 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 (60 days 9 hours ago): Unfortunately Matlab stopped shipping sqlite4java starting with R2021(b?)
K (66 days 19 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...