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 48 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 (5 days 7 hours ago): You can try to increase the Java heap memory size in the Matlab preferences (General => Java Heap Memory). Any changes to the settings will only take effect after restarting...
Thomas (5 days 9 hours ago): Hello, thanks for sharing! I currently receive the following memory error message when using savezip with a big object (Matlab R2020b, Windows 10). Error using...
Yair Altman (8 days 16 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (8 days 19 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (9 days 23 hours ago): Hello Mr. Altman, how can I disable menu items in the context menu? E.g. when I am trying to do this: menuItems = jmenu.getSubElements; menuItem1 = menuItems(1);...
Yair Altman (10 days 16 hours ago): Thanks for the note Eric – you forgot the crucial call to jTable.setLabelTable(labelTabl e) – I added it into your code snippet above.
Erik (12 days 3 hours ago): Thank you for this — I don’t know if this has been mentioned anywhere else before, but it could be useful to mention how to add custom labels to a jslider. I did the...
turhv (24 days 21 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
Jianfei (58 days 1 hour 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 (63 days 20 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 (69 days 10 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (71 days 12 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 (73 days 22 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 (78 days 23 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 (86 days 18 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.