Monthly Archive: November 2009

Customizing help popup contents

The built-in HelpPopup, available since Matlab R2007b, has a back-door that enables displaying arbitrary text, HTML and URL web-pages.

November 30, 2009 9 Comments Read More »

Customizing print setup

Matlab figures print-setup can be customized to automatically prepare the figure for printing in a specific configuration

November 25, 2009 9 Comments Read More »

Undocumented XML functionality

Matlab's built-in XML-processing functions have several undocumented features that can be used by Java-savvy users

November 18, 2009 6 Comments Read More »

Customizing Matlab labels

Matlab's text uicontrol is not very customizable, and does not support HTML or Tex formatting. This article shows how to display HTML labels in Matlab and some undocumented customizations

November 11, 2009 12 Comments Read More »

Customizing uiundo

This article describes how Matlab's undocumented uiundo undo/redo manager can be customized

November 4, 2009 9 Comments Read More »

Tommy (11 days 3 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 (15 days 18 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 (37 days 14 hours 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 (66 days 0 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 (68 days 12 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 (70 days 14 hours 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 (72 days 9 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 (72 days 17 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 (72 days 19 hours ago): @Ana – mtree.Tree.setRootVisible(fals e)
Ana Gomez (72 days 20 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 (79 days 20 hours ago): It’s working! THANK YOU!!
Yair Altman (80 days 9 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 (80 days 10 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 (81 days 19 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 (81 days 19 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',...