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2014 perspective & plans for 2015

2014 has seen a continued steady growth in website content and readership. This post takes an overview of past achievements and future plans.

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January 7, 2015 No Comments

New book: Accelerating MATLAB Performance

Accelerating MATLAB Performance (ISBN 9781482211290) is a book dedicated to improving Matlab performance (speed).

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December 16, 2014 No Comments

Transparency in uicontrols

Matlab uicontrols’ CData property can be customized to provide background transparency.

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December 10, 2014 5 Comments

Another couple of Matlab bugs and workarounds

A couple of internal Matlab bugs and their workarounds.

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November 26, 2014 32 Comments

Plot markers transparency and color gradient

Matlab plot-line markers can be customized to have transparency and color gradients.

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November 19, 2014 88 Comments

Plot line transparency and color gradient

Static and interpolated (gradient) colors and transparency can be set for plot lines in HG2.

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November 13, 2014 48 Comments

Customizing axes part 4 – additional properties

Matlab HG2 axes can be customized in many different ways. This article explains some of the undocumented aspects.

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October 29, 2014 5 Comments

Customizing axes part 3 – Backdrop

Matlab HG2 axes can be customized in many different ways. This article explains some of the undocumented aspects.

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October 22, 2014 6 Comments

Customizing axes part 2

Matlab HG2 axes can be customized in many different ways. This article explains some of the undocumented aspects.

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October 15, 2014 21 Comments

Customizing axes rulers

HG2 axes can be customized in numerous useful ways. This article explains how to customize the rulers.

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October 8, 2014 20 Comments

Customizing combobox popups

Matlab combobox (dropdown) popups can be customized in a variety of ways.

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September 24, 2014 8 Comments

Customizing listbox/combobox items

Matlab listboxes can be customized using custom Java cell-renderers.

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September 17, 2014 2 Comments

CheckboxList

Matlab listboxes can be enhanced with checkboxes next to each item.

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September 10, 2014 24 Comments

savezip utility

Matlab data can be serialized and saved into a ZIP/GZIP file, and loaded back.

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September 4, 2014 22 Comments

Inter-Matlab data transfer with memcached

The memcached library can be used to transfer data between separate Matlab processes (sessions).

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August 27, 2014 2 Comments

Property value change listeners

HG handle property changes can be trapped in a user-defined callback.

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August 13, 2014 14 Comments

Online (web-based) Matlab

Matlab Online is a MathWorks product that enables running Matlab applications via a full-fledged web interface.

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August 4, 2014 5 Comments

Class object tab completion & improper field names

Tab completions and property access can be customized for user-created Matlab classes.

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July 17, 2014 15 Comments

Using pure Java GUI in deployed Matlab apps

Using pure-Java GUI in deployed Matlab apps requires a special yet simple adaptation.

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July 10, 2014 27 Comments

USA visit, 22-31 July 2014

I will be visiting some US cities on July 2014.

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July 5, 2014 5 Comments

Java class access pitfalls

There are several potential pitfalls when accessing Matlab classes from Matlab.

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July 2, 2014 8 Comments

Function call timeline profiling

A new utility enables to interactively explore Matlab function call timeline profiling.

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June 16, 2014 9 Comments

checkClass

The checkClass utility enables easy listing of Java class methods.

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June 11, 2014 No Comments

Bar plot customizations

Matlab bar charts can be customized in various nifty ways.

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June 4, 2014 15 Comments

Plotly graphs in IPython Notebook

Plotly graphs can be embedded in an IPython Notebook directly from Matlab.

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May 14, 2014 1 Comment
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Recent Comments
  • Yair Altman (13 days 10 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 (13 days 10 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
  • Veronica Taurino (13 days 10 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 (16 days 10 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 (16 days 15 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 (40 days 10 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
  • Yair Altman (52 days 2 hours ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
  • Sagar Chawla (52 days 2 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 (52 days 3 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 (55 days 18 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()
  • Yair Altman (55 days 21 hours ago): @Ben – it looks perfectly ok (with color gradient and all) on my R2022a… Perhaps you missed some of the steps (e.g. setting the ColorBinding to 'interpolated') or...
  • Ben Abbott (55 days 21 hours ago): The graded color is not working for me using R2021a. The plot “HG2 plot line color, transparency gradient” looks exactly like “Transparent HG2 plot...
  • Yair Altman (79 days 0 hours ago): Oliver – you probably forgot to update hMarkers.FaceColorType to ‘truecoloralpha‘: x=1:10; y=10*x; figure; hLine = plot(x,y,'o-'); drawnow...
  • Oliver (79 days 0 hours ago): This seems to have been disabled in the most recent version of Matlab (R2021b). When I use this method the hMarker.FaceColorData does change, but the markers are not made...
  • Yair Altman (97 days 22 hours ago): @Tim – the new uidatepicker() function only works with web-based figures (created using the uifigure() function or App Designer); it is not available on the legacy...
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