Monthly Archive: September 2010

Undocumented cursorbar object

Matlab's internal undocumented graphics.cursorbar object can be used to present dynamic data-tip cross-hairs

September 29, 2010 40 Comments Read More »

GUI automation utilities

This article explains a couple of Matlab utilities that use Java's Robot class to programmatically control mouse and keyboard actions

September 22, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

GUI automation using a Robot

This article explains how Java's Robot class can be used to programmatically control mouse and keyboard actions

September 15, 2010 37 Comments Read More »

Docs of old Matlab releases

MathWorks recently posted archived documentation for many previous Matlab releases

September 7, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

Customizing uitree nodes – part 2

This article shows how Matlab GUI tree nodes can be customized with checkboxes and similar controls

September 1, 2010 61 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (5 days 22 hours ago): In theory you could use the data: URI scheme (e.g. .load('data:text/html,<html ><body>Hello world</body></html>')), but for some reason it doesn’t work well in...
Sebastian (6 days 3 hours ago): Thanks for your update to the now unsupported `HTMLBrowserPanel`. I tried to replace it with the `LightweightHelpPanel` but the application I am working on is showing generated...
Leuze (28 days 4 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
Eric Delgado (57 days 7 hours ago): Hey Yair, I think your site is the right place to share that I wrote ccTools, a lib that allows a lot of customizations of Matlab built-in web components (such as uifigure,...
Eric Delgado (57 days 7 hours ago): Hey guys, first of all, thanks to @Yair, your site saved me a lot of times! 🙂 That’s why I am sharing that I wrote m2mlapp (*.m => *.mlapp) file conversion, that...
François (74 days 5 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (75 days 3 hours ago): I am not familiar with a universal catch-all tab-completion mechanism for all functions, and it also doesn’t make much sense to me, because different functions use...
Arye (75 days 21 hours ago): hi, is there a universal functionSignature.json file that will allow my to get the function hints when opening brackets of my funcs? something that automaticly recognize my function...
Sunham (78 days 15 hours ago): This is an old article, but the issue persists even in 2023. 2023a: z = mat2cell(1:1e6,1,repmat(1,1,1e 6)); f = @() cellfun(‘isempty’, z); g = @() cellfun(@isempty,z);...
Yair Altman (88 days 6 hours ago): Robot only runs when you tell it to run a command such as keyPress. If you don’t tell it to run a command, it uses no CPU, so there’s no need to remove the Robot...
Eric (88 days 17 hours ago): Hey @Kevin, can you share your code about create group of figures in the AppContainer? The container of multiples uifigures could be an amazing improvement over AppDesigner and its...
Elsa Smith (89 days 8 hours ago): I recently used java.awt.Robot to perform GUI testing on MATLAB and found it to be an extremely easy and useful way to control mouse movements.
Elsa Smith (89 days 8 hours ago): I’m suspecting that the slow performance of my GUI may be due to the use of java.awt.Robot. Is there a way to cancel/stop/remove the robot after it has been created, or is...
Michelle Kline (90 days 1 hour ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
Michelle Kline (90 days 1 hour ago): Thank you, Yair! With this previously-unknown-to-me tip about fwrite() performance, you have saved me literally hours of processing time. Michelle Kline Department of...