Technical articles - Undocumented Matlab

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.

January 7, 2015 No Comments

New book: Accelerating MATLAB Performance

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

December 16, 2014 No Comments

Transparency in uicontrols

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

December 10, 2014 5 Comments

Another couple of Matlab bugs and workarounds

A couple of internal Matlab bugs and their workarounds.

November 26, 2014 32 Comments

Plot markers transparency and color gradient

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

November 19, 2014 90 Comments

Plot line transparency and color gradient

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

November 13, 2014 50 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.

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.

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.

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.

October 8, 2014 20 Comments

Customizing combobox popups

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

September 24, 2014 8 Comments

Customizing listbox/combobox items

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

September 17, 2014 2 Comments

CheckboxList

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

September 10, 2014 24 Comments

savezip utility

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

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).

August 27, 2014 2 Comments

Property value change listeners

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

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.

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.

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.

July 10, 2014 27 Comments

USA visit, 22-31 July 2014

I will be visiting some US cities on July 2014.

July 5, 2014 5 Comments

Java class access pitfalls

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

July 2, 2014 8 Comments

Function call timeline profiling

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

June 16, 2014 9 Comments

checkClass

The checkClass utility enables easy listing of Java class methods.

June 11, 2014 No Comments

Bar plot customizations

Matlab bar charts can be customized in various nifty ways.

June 4, 2014 15 Comments

Plotly graphs in IPython Notebook

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

May 14, 2014 1 Comment

Leuze (16 days 21 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
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,...
Eric Delgado (45 days 23 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 (62 days 21 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (63 days 19 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 (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...
Alessandro Beda (91 days 5 hours ago): I found what I think is a bug related to this (tested in R2022 and R2023a). If I add a “ButtonDownFcn” to the plots (see example below), then the modified...
Nicholas (92 days 20 hours ago): Yair, Changing the desktop help options did not solve the issue. Though, it’s unclear how I could change these options in the Runtime, if that’s what you meant? I should...