Monthly Archive: August 2009

Figure toolbar components

Matlab's toolbars can be customized using a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks. This article describes how to access existing toolbar icons and how to add non-button toolbar components.

August 27, 2009 50 Comments Read More »

EditorMacro v2 – setting Command Window key-bindings

The EditorMacro utility was extended to support built-in Matlab Editor and Command-Window actions and key-bindings. This post describes the changes and the implementation details.

August 20, 2009 4 Comments Read More »

Setting listbox mouse actions

Matlab listbox uicontrol can be modified to detect mouse events for right-click context menus, dynamic tooltips etc.

August 13, 2009 34 Comments Read More »

Context-Sensitive Help

Matlab has a hidden/unsupported built-in mechanism for easy implementation of context-sensitive help

August 5, 2009 10 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (8 days 2 hours ago): Dom – call drawnow *just before* you set hLine.MarkerHandle.FaceColorTy pe to 'truecoloralpha'. Also, you made a typo in your code: it’s truecoloralpha, not...
Dom (9 days 1 hour ago): Yair I have tried your code with trucoloralpha and the markers do not appear transparent in R2021b, same as for Oliver.
Yair Altman (12 days 8 hours ago): Ren – This is usually the expected behavior, which avoids unnecessary duplications of the Excel process in CPU/memory. If you want to kill the process you can always run...
Yair Altman (12 days 22 hours ago): When you use plot() without hold(‘on’), each new plot() clears the axes and draws a new line, so your second plot() of p2 caused the first plot() line (p1) to be...
Cesim Dumlu (19 days 6 hours ago): Hello. I am trying to do a gradient plot for multiple functions to be displayed on the same axes and each one is colorcoded by respective colordata, using the same scaling. The...
Yair Altman (27 days 9 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 (27 days 9 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
Veronica Taurino (27 days 9 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 (30 days 9 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 (30 days 14 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 (54 days 10 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
Yair Altman (66 days 2 hours ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
Sagar Chawla (66 days 2 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 (66 days 2 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 (69 days 17 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()