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 6 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (3 days 5 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (3 days 8 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (4 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 (5 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 (6 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 (19 days 11 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
Jianfei (52 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 (58 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 (64 days 0 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (66 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 (68 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 (73 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 (81 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.
Robin (81 days 16 hours 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 (103 days 13 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...