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Monthly Archive: July 2009

Setting status-bar components

Matlab status-bars are Java containers in which we can add GUI controls such as progress-bars, not just simple text labels

July 30, 2009 20 Comments Read More »

Setting status-bar text

The Matlab desktop and figure windows have a usable statusbar which can only be set using undocumented methods. This post shows how to set the status-bar text.

July 23, 2009 64 Comments Read More »

Non-textual editor actions

The UIINSPECT utility can be used to expand EditorMacro capabilities to non-text-insertion actions. This is how:

July 17, 2009 10 Comments Read More »

BlinkDagger – the end?

In his latest post on BlinkDagger, Quan Quach announced that the BlinkDagger blog will be frozen following co-author Daniel Sutoyo’s hiring by The MathWorks and the continuous strain of maintaining

July 8, 2009 2 Comments Read More »

EditorMacro – assign a keyboard macro in the Matlab editor

EditorMacro is a new utility that enables setting keyboard macros in the Matlab editor. this post details its inner workings.

July 1, 2009 24 Comments Read More »
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  • Yair Altman (14 days 0 hours ago): @Veronica – you are using the new version of uitree, which uses HTML-based uifigures, and my post was about the Java-based uitree which uses legacy Matlab figures. For...
  • Veronica Taurino (14 days 0 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
  • Veronica Taurino (14 days 0 hours ago): Hello, I am just trying to change the uitree node name as you suggested: txt1 = 'abra'; txt2 = 'kadabra'; node.setName([txt1,txt2]); >> "Unrecognized method, property, or...
  • Yair Altman (17 days 0 hours ago): The version of JGraph that you downloaded uses a newer version of Java (11) than the one that Matlab supports (8). You need to either (1) find an earlier version of JGraph that...
  • mrv (17 days 5 hours ago): hello, I used MATLAB 2019b update9, I have add jgraphx.jar to javaclassapth, and restart matlab, but still got errors below: Warning: A Java exception occurred trying to load the...
  • xuejie wu (41 days 0 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
  • Yair Altman (52 days 16 hours ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
  • Sagar Chawla (52 days 16 hours ago): I want to know how to change the x-axis to the z-axis. I mean the position. Like if there is a 3d animated graph then how to change position of the axis. X-axis in place of...
  • Ren (52 days 17 hours ago): I noticed that xlsread will create a hidden and never-dying special server that always has priority when actxGetRunningServer is called. So this cause a problem that no matter how many...
  • Ben Abbott (56 days 8 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()
  • Yair Altman (56 days 11 hours ago): @Ben – it looks perfectly ok (with color gradient and all) on my R2022a… Perhaps you missed some of the steps (e.g. setting the ColorBinding to 'interpolated') or...
  • Ben Abbott (56 days 11 hours ago): The graded color is not working for me using R2021a. The plot “HG2 plot line color, transparency gradient” looks exactly like “Transparent HG2 plot...
  • Yair Altman (79 days 14 hours ago): Oliver – you probably forgot to update hMarkers.FaceColorType to ‘truecoloralpha‘: x=1:10; y=10*x; figure; hLine = plot(x,y,'o-'); drawnow...
  • Oliver (79 days 14 hours ago): This seems to have been disabled in the most recent version of Matlab (R2021b). When I use this method the hMarker.FaceColorData does change, but the markers are not made...
  • Yair Altman (98 days 12 hours ago): @Tim – the new uidatepicker() function only works with web-based figures (created using the uifigure() function or App Designer); it is not available on the legacy...
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