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 »

Yair Altman (22 hours 4 minutes 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 (23 hours 34 minutes 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 (4 days 6 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (4 days 9 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (5 days 14 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 (6 days 6 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 (7 days 17 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 (20 days 12 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
Jianfei (53 days 16 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 (59 days 11 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 (65 days 1 hour ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (67 days 3 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 (69 days 12 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 (74 days 14 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 (82 days 9 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.