Spicing up Matlab uicontrol tooltips
Matlab uicontrol tooltips can be spiced-up using HTML and CSS, including fonts, colors, tables and images
Yearly Archive: 2009
tic / toc – undocumented option
Matlab's built-in tic/toc functions have an undocumented option enabling multiple nested clockings
cprintf – display formatted color text in the Command Window
cprintf is a utility that utilized undocumented Matlab desktop functionalities to display color and underline-styled formatted text in the Command Window
cellfun – undocumented performance boost
Matlab's built-in cellfun function has an undocumented option to significantly improve performance in some cases.
Changing Matlab's Command Window colors – part 2
The Matlab Command Window enables a limited degree of inline color customization - this post describes how to use it
Displaying hidden handle properties
I present two ways of checking undocumented hidden properties in Matlab Handle Graphics (HG) handles
Uicontrol callbacks
This post details undocumented callbacks exposed by the underlying Java object of Matlab uicontrols, that can be used to modify the control's behavior in a multitude of different events
Button customization
Matlab's button uicontrols (pushbutton and togglebutton) are basically wrappers for a Java Swing JButton object. This post describes how the buttons can be customized using this Java object in ways
Spy Easter egg
The built-in Matlab function spy has an undocumented feature (Easter egg) when it is called with no input arguments.
ismembc – undocumented helper function
Matlab has several undocumented internal helper functions that can be useful on their own in some cases. This post presents the ismembc function.