Monthly Archive: June 2009

Setting the Matlab desktop layout programmatically

The Matlab desktop enables saving and switching layouts using the main menu. This post shows how to do so programmatically.

June 24, 2009 6 Comments Read More »

Changing system preferences programmatically

Matlab user/system preferences can be changed programmatically, from within your Matlab application or from the Matlab desktop command prompt. This post details how.

June 17, 2009 16 Comments Read More »

GUIDE customization

Matlab's GUI Design Editor (GUIDE) has several interesting undocumented features. This post describes how to customize GUIDE rulers.

June 10, 2009 8 Comments Read More »

Legend '-DynamicLegend' semi-documented feature

The built-in Matlab legend function has a very useful semi-documented feature for automatic dynamic update, which is explained here.

June 4, 2009 21 Comments Read More »

Tommy (9 days 14 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 5 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 1 hour 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 11 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 (66 days 23 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 1 hour 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 (70 days 20 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 5 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 6 hours ago): @Ana – mtree.Tree.setRootVisible(fals e)
Ana Gomez (71 days 7 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 7 hours ago): It’s working! THANK YOU!!
Yair Altman (78 days 20 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 (78 days 21 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 6 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 6 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',...