Monthly Archive: February 2010

Inactive Control Tooltips & Event Chaining

Inactive Matlab uicontrols cannot normally display their tooltips. This article shows how to do this with a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks.

February 24, 2010 8 Comments Read More »

Additional uicontrol tooltip hacks

Matlab's uicontrol tooltips have several limitations that can be overcome using the control's underlying Java object.

February 17, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

Continuous slider callback

Matlab slider uicontrols do not enable a continuous-motion callback by default. This article explains how this can be achieved using undocumented features.

February 8, 2010 56 Comments Read More »

Solving a MATLAB bug by subclassing

Matlab's Image Processing Toolbox's impoint function contains an annoying bug that can be fixed using some undocumented properties.

February 7, 2010 4 Comments Read More »

Customizing listbox & editbox scrollbars

Matlab listbox and multi-line editbox uicontrols have pre-configured scrollbars. This article shows how they can be customized.

February 1, 2010 50 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.