Monthly Archive: July 2010

COM/ActiveX tips & tricks

This article describes several little-known tips useful for COM / ActiveX programming in Matlab

July 28, 2010 6 Comments Read More »

Matlab DDE support

Windows DDE is an unsupported and undocumented feature of Matlab, that can be used to improve the work-flow in the Windows environment

July 21, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

Syntax highlighted labels & panels

Syntax-highlighted labels and edit-boxes can easily be displayed in Matlab GUI - this article explains how.

July 14, 2010 18 Comments Read More »

Modifying Matlab's Look-and-Feel

Matlab's entire Look-and-Feel (PLAF, or L&F) can be modified at the control or application level - this article shows how

July 7, 2010 53 Comments Read More »

turhv (3 days 20 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
Jianfei (36 days 23 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 (42 days 19 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 (48 days 9 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (50 days 11 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 (52 days 20 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 (57 days 22 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 (65 days 17 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.
Robin (66 days 1 hour ago): Hi Yair, This has been a great help. With the removal of com.mathworks sometime in the future (as announced in R2020b), is there an alternative? For me, just getting a preference...
Eric Dziekonski (87 days 22 hours ago): This is fantastic! Thanks everyone! To get access to CEF on 2019b, I had to take the advise of Jeffery Devereux and Xiangrui Li. warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % suppress...
Yair Altman (88 days 4 hours ago): jPanel1.setParent(jPanel2) will reparent jPanel1 (and similarly any Java component/container) inside jPanel2 (any Java container). While this might work, it seems to me to be an...
Eivind (88 days 19 hours ago): Hi, Thanks for a great function! I was trying to put the main panel of my figure into a scrollable panel with the goal of zooming into the panel using shift+scroll and scrolling up...
Yair Altman (103 days 5 hours ago): There is no direct way to replicate the CW in a GUI window, you’ll need to display the text in the GUI using your program logic. Here is one possible implementation that...
Sunki Reddy Gunugu (105 days 3 hours ago): hi 1.i would like to know how the error in command window of matlab is captured and displayed in the GUI with the same color in CW 2. Is their any way to replicate the...
Matthias Brenneis (107 days 21 hours ago): Hi, thank you so much for the inspiring work and comments! My issue is: As soon as the panel gets an axes, the panel is no longer transparent: f =...