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Matlab callbacks for Java events in R2014a

R2014a changed the way in which Java objects expose events as Matlab callbacks.

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May 8, 2014 16 Comments

Animated busy (spinning) icon

An animated spinning icon label can easily be embedded in Matlab GUI.

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April 16, 2014 51 Comments

Transparent uipanels

Matlab uipanels can be made transparent, for very useful effects.

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April 9, 2014 17 Comments

uicontextmenu performance

Matlab uicontextmenus are not automatically deleted with their associated objects, leading to leaks and slow-downs.

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April 2, 2014 5 Comments

JSON-Matlab integration

JSON can easily be integrated in Matlab to achieve cross-platform standard API.

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March 26, 2014 18 Comments

Undocumented feature list

A list of undocumented MATLAB features can be retrieved. Here’s how…

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March 19, 2014 4 Comments

Explicit multi-threading in Matlab part 4

Matlab performance can be improved by employing timer objects and spawning external processes.

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March 12, 2014 30 Comments

Explicit multi-threading in Matlab part 3

Matlab performance can be improved by employing POSIX threads in C/C++ code.

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March 5, 2014 4 Comments

Explicit multi-threading in Matlab part 2

Matlab performance can be improved by employing .Net (C#, VB, F# or C++) threads.

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February 26, 2014 No Comments

Explicit multi-threading in Matlab part 1

Explicit multi-threading can be achieved in Matlab by a variety of simple means.

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February 19, 2014 31 Comments

Improving Simulink performance

Simulink simulation run-time performance can be improved by orders of magnitude by following some simple steps.

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February 12, 2014 3 Comments

Undocumented button highlighting

Matlab button uicontrols can easily be highlighted by simply setting their Value property.

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February 5, 2014 1 Comment

Assessing Java object size in Matlab

Java object sizes are not reported by Matlab, but we can still estimate them using two free external utilities.

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January 29, 2014 No Comments

Serializing/deserializing Matlab data

Matlab does not provide a documented manner to serialize data into a byte stream, but we can do this with some undocumented functionality.

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January 22, 2014 22 Comments

MathWorks blogs facelift

MathWorks has just released a new look-&-feel for their blogs section.

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January 12, 2014 1 Comment

2013 perspective & plans for 2014

2013 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 8, 2014 1 Comment

Accessing private object properties

Private properties of Matlab class objects can be accessed (read and write) using some undocumented techniques.

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December 18, 2013 2 Comments

Class object creation performance

Performance aspects of Matlab class object creation are discussed, with specific suggestions.

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December 11, 2013 8 Comments

Plotly graphs

Plotly charts can be created and customized in Matlab.

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December 4, 2013 4 Comments

sprintfc – undocumented helper function

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

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November 27, 2013 5 Comments

Performance: accessing handle properties

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

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November 20, 2013 13 Comments

Listbox layout customization

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

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November 13, 2013 14 Comments

Another Command Window text color hack

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

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November 6, 2013 6 Comments

Matlab numerical gotchas

Matlab includes some numerical gotchas that we should be careful to avoid…

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October 30, 2013 9 Comments

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.

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October 23, 2013 6 Comments
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Recent Comments
  • Michelle Kline (23 hours 21 minutes ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
  • Michelle Kline (23 hours 24 minutes 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 (13 days 11 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 (15 days 1 hour 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...
  • Yair Altman (18 days 21 hours ago): @Francisco – this is one of those cases where you should ask MathWorks support. After all, you’re trying to use a supported Matlab functionality when you encountered...
  • Francisco Campos (19 days 8 hours ago): Hello, thanks for all your work that has been immensely useful for those working in the Matlab environment. I have been trying to replace matlabcontrol with the official...
  • Yair Altman (23 days 9 hours ago): Kei – this is possible, I believe that I saw this ability somewhere, a few years ago. I don’t remember exactly where, it will require a bit of research, but...
  • Kei (23 days 12 hours ago): Hello Yair Thank you for this great article. I would like to freeze first two columns in uitable. Do you know if such option is available? Since looks like this option is not available...
  • Andrés Aguilar (26 days 23 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
  • Yair Altman (35 days 21 hours ago): I posted my treeTable utility 10 years ago for anyone to use freely, on an as-is basis, without any warranty, updates or support. If you need any customization or assistance...
  • JY (35 days 22 hours ago): Yair, could you respond to this question please? I’m also finding it difficult to implement such a multi-hierarchy table. Thanks
  • Yair Altman (37 days 8 hours ago): To debug uifigures in an external browser (e.g. to see the internal HTML/CSS) we need to first set Matlab to enable such debugging. I updated Step #2 above with the relevant...
  • Yair Altman (37 days 8 hours ago): The error indicates that the LightweightHelpPanel exists, but fails to load due to some funky preference of your deployed Help documentation. Try to set your Matlab...
  • Ba (45 days 11 hours ago): Dear Iliya, remove uibutton, instead of using the “WindowButtonDownFcnR 21; of uifigure is working for me.
  • Nicholas (54 days 22 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thanks for the reply. I am on Windows 10. I also forgot to mention that this all works wonderfully out of the editor. It only fails once compiled. So, yes, I have tried a...
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