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 (6 days 21 hours ago): Dom – call drawnow *just before* you set hLine.MarkerHandle.FaceColorTy pe to 'truecoloralpha'. Also, you made a typo in your code: it’s truecoloralpha, not...
Dom (7 days 20 hours ago): Yair I have tried your code with trucoloralpha and the markers do not appear transparent in R2021b, same as for Oliver.
Yair Altman (11 days 3 hours ago): Ren – This is usually the expected behavior, which avoids unnecessary duplications of the Excel process in CPU/memory. If you want to kill the process you can always run...
Yair Altman (11 days 17 hours ago): When you use plot() without hold(‘on’), each new plot() clears the axes and draws a new line, so your second plot() of p2 caused the first plot() line (p1) to be...
Cesim Dumlu (18 days 0 hours ago): Hello. I am trying to do a gradient plot for multiple functions to be displayed on the same axes and each one is colorcoded by respective colordata, using the same scaling. The...
Yair Altman (26 days 3 hours ago): @Veronica – you are using the new version of uitree, which uses HTML-based uifigures, and my post was about the Java-based uitree which uses legacy Matlab figures. For...
Veronica Taurino (26 days 4 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
Veronica Taurino (26 days 4 hours ago): Hello, I am just trying to change the uitree node name as you suggested: txt1 = 'abra'; txt2 = 'kadabra'; node.setName([txt1,txt2]); >> "Unrecognized method, property, or...
Yair Altman (29 days 4 hours ago): The version of JGraph that you downloaded uses a newer version of Java (11) than the one that Matlab supports (8). You need to either (1) find an earlier version of JGraph that...
mrv (29 days 8 hours ago): hello, I used MATLAB 2019b update9, I have add jgraphx.jar to javaclassapth, and restart matlab, but still got errors below: Warning: A Java exception occurred trying to load the...
xuejie wu (53 days 4 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
Yair Altman (64 days 20 hours ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
Sagar Chawla (64 days 20 hours ago): I want to know how to change the x-axis to the z-axis. I mean the position. Like if there is a 3d animated graph then how to change position of the axis. X-axis in place of...
Ren (64 days 21 hours ago): I noticed that xlsread will create a hidden and never-dying special server that always has priority when actxGetRunningServer is called. So this cause a problem that no matter how many...
Ben Abbott (68 days 11 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()