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Setting class property types – take 2

R2016a saw the addition of class property types. However, a better alternative has existed for many years.

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April 27, 2016 11 Comments

Smart listbox & editbox scrollbars

Matlab listbox and multi-line editbox scrollbars can easily be made smarter, for improved appearance.

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April 20, 2016 6 Comments

Faster findjobj

the ubiquitous findjobj utility has been significantly improved for speed for the most common use case.

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April 11, 2016 11 Comments

Adding a search box to figure toolbar

An interactive search-box can easily be added to a Matlab figure toolbar for enhanced user experience.

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March 30, 2016 3 Comments

Public Matlab presentations

I present a professional pairs-trading and analysis program in Matlab conferences in Tel Aviv and Munich.

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March 23, 2016 4 Comments

Secure SSL connection between Matlab and PostgreSQL

It is tricky, but quite possible, to use SSL to connect Matlab to a PostgreSQL database.

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March 18, 2016 No Comments

Customizing contour plots part 2

The contour lines of 3D Matlab plot can be customized in many different ways. This is the 2nd article on this issue.

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March 9, 2016 5 Comments

Munich Germany visit, 9-11 May 2016

I will be visiting clients in Munich, Germany between May 9-11, 2016 for advanced Matlab training and consulting.

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February 27, 2016 No Comments

Better MEX error messages

The default clunky and release-incompatible MEX error messages can be improved using a simple hack.

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February 24, 2016 2 Comments

Simple GUI Tabs for Advanced Matlab Trading App

A new File Exchange utility enables to easily design GUI tabs using Matlab’s GUIDE

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February 17, 2016 15 Comments

Quirks with compiled Matlab DLLs

Several quirks with Matlab-compiled DLLs are discussed and workarounds suggested.

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February 10, 2016 No Comments

Convolution performance

Matlab’s internal implementation of convolution can often be sped up significantly using the Convolution Theorem.

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February 3, 2016 7 Comments

I am hiring a Matlab programmer (Tel Aviv)

I am hiring a Matlab programmer in the Tel Aviv area

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January 24, 2016 1 Comment

Graphic sizing in Matlab R2015b

Matlab release R2015b’s new “DPI-aware” nature broke some important functionality. Here’s what can be done…

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January 20, 2016 8 Comments

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 2

Non-standard shortcut controls and customizations can easily be added to the Matlab desktop.

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December 30, 2015 6 Comments

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 1

Matlab Desktop shortcuts can be programmatically accessed and customized.

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December 23, 2015 7 Comments

Solving a Matlab MCOS bug

Matlab has a bug with handling multi-element class-access constructs. This post explains the problem and solution.

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December 2, 2015 10 Comments

Customizing contour plots

Contour labels, lines and fill patches can easily be customized in Matlab HG2.

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November 18, 2015 12 Comments

Figure keypress modifiers

The figure’s CurrentModifier property provides a simple and consistent way to retrieve keypress modifiers: alt-, control- and shift-clicks.

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November 4, 2015 6 Comments

Enabling user callbacks during zoom/pan

Matlab zoom, pan and rotate3d modes hijack the user’s figure callbacks, but this can be overridden.

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October 28, 2015 14 Comments

Hyperlink text labels

Hyperlink labels can easily be added to Matlab GUIs.

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October 21, 2015 5 Comments

Font selection components

Several built-in components enable programmatic font selection in Matlab GUI – this article explains how.

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October 7, 2015 3 Comments

Adding dynamic properties to graphic handles

It is easy and very useful to attach dynamic properties to Matlab graphics objects in run-time.

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September 16, 2015 4 Comments

Callback functions performance

Using anonymous functions in Matlab callbacks can be very painful for performance. Today’s article explains how this can be avoided.

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September 9, 2015 12 Comments

Solving an mput (FTP) hang problem

Matlab may hang when using passive FTP commands such as mput and dir. A simple workaround is available to fix this.

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August 19, 2015 3 Comments
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  • Eric Delgado (45 days 23 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,...
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  • Arye (64 days 13 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 (67 days 8 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 (76 days 22 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 (77 days 9 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 (78 days 0 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 (78 days 0 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 (78 days 17 hours ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
  • Michelle Kline (78 days 17 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...
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