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 6 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 »

Jianfei (29 days 23 hours 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 (35 days 18 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 (41 days 8 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (43 days 10 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 (45 days 20 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 (50 days 21 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 (58 days 16 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.
Robin (59 days 0 hours ago): Hi Yair, This has been a great help. With the removal of com.mathworks sometime in the future (as announced in R2020b), is there an alternative? For me, just getting a preference...
Eric Dziekonski (80 days 22 hours ago): This is fantastic! Thanks everyone! To get access to CEF on 2019b, I had to take the advise of Jeffery Devereux and Xiangrui Li. warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % suppress...
Yair Altman (81 days 4 hours ago): jPanel1.setParent(jPanel2) will reparent jPanel1 (and similarly any Java component/container) inside jPanel2 (any Java container). While this might work, it seems to me to be an...
Eivind (81 days 18 hours ago): Hi, Thanks for a great function! I was trying to put the main panel of my figure into a scrollable panel with the goal of zooming into the panel using shift+scroll and scrolling up...
Yair Altman (96 days 5 hours ago): There is no direct way to replicate the CW in a GUI window, you’ll need to display the text in the GUI using your program logic. Here is one possible implementation that...
Sunki Reddy Gunugu (98 days 2 hours ago): hi 1.i would like to know how the error in command window of matlab is captured and displayed in the GUI with the same color in CW 2. Is their any way to replicate the...
Matthias Brenneis (100 days 21 hours ago): Hi, thank you so much for the inspiring work and comments! My issue is: As soon as the panel gets an axes, the panel is no longer transparent: f =...
Collin (120 days 18 hours ago): Yair, In 2020a Mathworks added this semi-useful class matlab.ui.internal.JavaMigrati onTools Which contains static methods to call javacomponent, actxcontrol or to get an...