Monthly Archive: April 2011

Plot-type selection components

Several built-in components enable programmatic plot-type selection in Matlab GUI - this article explains how

April 28, 2011 5 Comments Read More »

Blurred Matlab figure window

Matlab figure windows can be blurred using a semi-transparent overlaid window - this article explains how

April 20, 2011 2 Comments Read More »

Transparent Matlab figure window

Matlab figure windows can be made fully or partially transparent/translucent or blurred - this article explains how

April 13, 2011 18 Comments Read More »

Enable/disable entire figure window

Disabling/enabling an entire figure window is impossible with pure Matlab, but is very simple using the underlying Java. This article explains how.

April 6, 2011 74 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (21 hours 13 minutes 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 (22 hours 43 minutes 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 (4 days 6 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (4 days 8 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (5 days 13 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 (6 days 5 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 (7 days 16 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 (20 days 11 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
Jianfei (53 days 15 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 (59 days 10 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 (65 days 0 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (67 days 2 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 (69 days 11 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 (74 days 13 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 (82 days 8 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.