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 »

Tommy (11 days 2 hours ago): Just adding my implementation inspired by Sebastian and i3v. It handles the state reset that occurs when uimode changes. Also, has options to ignore/append for specific modes....
Niko (15 days 17 hours ago): Hi, Has anyone acomplished to install Andreas’ tool for Matlab version ‘9.11.0.1809720 (R2021b) Update 1’ or higher? I think the fact that Matlab now uses the stupid...
Gabriel (37 days 13 hours ago): This didn’t work when trying to link y axes across the plots in each column and x axes across the plots in each row on an (m x n) tiledlayout. On matlab R2021a found that I...
Ana Gomez (65 days 23 hours ago): I understand Yair, Thank you very much for all your valuable assistance. I think I can manage with the options I have now, but I will contact you as professional consultant if I...
Yair Altman (68 days 11 hours ago): @Ana – it appears that you need to customize a complex GUI, and require more than simple answers to simple queries, which is beyond the scope of a blog Q&A....
Ana Gomez (70 days 13 hours ago): Thank you very much Yair. yes I was doing something wrong. I was able to remove the root now 🙂 As you say I am using the Java-based component, in a Matlab 2016b, quite old, but...
Yair Altman (72 days 7 hours ago): Ana, I believe that you are mistaken. Assuming you’re using the Java-based (not the new web-based) checkboxtree component (as described in https://undocumentedmatlab....
Ana Gomez (72 days 16 hours ago): Thank you for the prompt answer! Is this also possible with checkboxtree? Because I am having some trouble with the method setRootVisible in this case. No method...
Yair Altman (72 days 18 hours ago): @Ana – mtree.Tree.setRootVisible(fals e)
Ana Gomez (72 days 18 hours ago): Good morning Yair, and thanks for these really useful series 🙂 I am wondering if it is possible to create this tree but without the “root”, I mean, in your example,...
Peter (79 days 19 hours ago): It’s working! THANK YOU!!
Yair Altman (80 days 8 hours ago): @Peter – tab heights are set by the Operating System’s Look and Feel. You can either change the Look-and-Feel used by Matlab, or use the much larger tabs in the GUI...
Peter (80 days 9 hours ago): Hello again Mr. Altman and thank you for all you work and help! I have a question. I want to resize the TABS, i mean the small things at the top, that says “tab1,...
Yair Altman (81 days 18 hours ago): @Santiago – AFAIK you cannot parent a Matlab uimenu or uitoolbar to a uitab. However, you can add Java components (in your case, JMenuBar and JToolBar) using the...
Yair Altman (81 days 18 hours ago): @Peter – you can modify the scrollbars by accessing them directly. For example: % Create a multi-line (Max>1) editbox uicontrol hEditbox = uicontrol('style','edit',...