Monthly Archive: November 2013

sprintfc – undocumented helper function

The built-in sprintfc function can be used to quickly generate a cell-array of formatted strings.

November 27, 2013 5 Comments Read More »

Performance: accessing handle properties

Handle object property access (get/set) performance can be significantly improved using dot-notation.

November 20, 2013 13 Comments Read More »

Listbox layout customization

Matlab's listbox layout can be modified to display multiple item columns and different inter-cell margins.

November 13, 2013 14 Comments Read More »

Another Command Window text color hack

Matlab's fprintf command has an undocumented hack to display orange-colored text.

November 6, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Rolf (3 days 10 hours ago): Disclosure: This comes from the developer/vendor of the Code Checker for MATLAB. Have a look at the Code Checker for MATLAB by MonkeyProof Solutions which has many such (configurable)...
Yair Altman (11 days 4 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 (11 days 9 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 (33 days 10 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
Eric Delgado (62 days 13 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 (62 days 13 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 (79 days 10 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (80 days 8 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 (81 days 2 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 (83 days 21 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 (93 days 11 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 (93 days 22 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 (94 days 13 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 (94 days 14 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 (95 days 7 hours ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’