Monthly Archive: October 2013

Matlab numerical gotchas

Matlab includes some numerical gotchas that we should be careful to avoid...

October 30, 2013 9 Comments Read More »

Draggable plot data-tips

Matlab's standard plot data-tips can be customized to enable dragging, without being limitted to be adjacent to their data-point.

October 23, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Using JIDE combo-boxes

Matlab includes many custom JIDE combo-box controls that can be used in Matlab GUIs out of the box.

October 16, 2013 2 Comments Read More »

Editable combo-box

Matlab's popup menu (combo-box) control is quite limited in its abilities. This article explains how we can work around these limitations.

October 9, 2013 20 Comments Read More »

Editbox data input validation

Undocumented features of Matlab editbox uicontrols enable immediate user-input data validation

October 2, 2013 7 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (7 days 5 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 (7 days 10 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 (29 days 11 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
Eric Delgado (58 days 14 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 (58 days 14 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 (75 days 11 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (76 days 9 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 (77 days 4 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 (79 days 22 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 (89 days 12 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 (89 days 23 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 (90 days 14 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 (90 days 15 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 (91 days 8 hours ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
Michelle Kline (91 days 8 hours 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...