Context-Sensitive Help
Matlab has a hidden/unsupported built-in mechanism for easy implementation of context-sensitive help
Yearly Archive: 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
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.
Non-textual editor actions
The UIINSPECT utility can be used to expand EditorMacro capabilities to non-text-insertion actions. This is how:
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
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.
Setting the Matlab desktop layout programmatically
The Matlab desktop enables saving and switching layouts using the main menu. This post shows how to do so programmatically.
Changing system preferences programmatically
Matlab user/system preferences can be changed programmatically, from within your Matlab application or from the Matlab desktop command prompt. This post details how.
GUIDE customization
Matlab's GUI Design Editor (GUIDE) has several interesting undocumented features. This post describes how to customize GUIDE rulers.
Legend '-DynamicLegend' semi-documented feature
The built-in Matlab legend function has a very useful semi-documented feature for automatic dynamic update, which is explained here.