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Using JIDE combo-boxes

Matlab includes many custom JIDE combo-box controls that can be used in Matlab GUIs out of the box.

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October 16, 2013 2 Comments

Editable combo-box

Matlab’s popup menu (combo-box) control is quite limited in its abilities. This article explains how we can work around these limitations.

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October 9, 2013 20 Comments

Editbox data input validation

Undocumented features of Matlab editbox uicontrols enable immediate user-input data validation

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October 2, 2013 7 Comments

Customizing editboxes

Matlab’s editbox can be customized in many useful manners

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September 25, 2013 9 Comments

Rich-contents log panel

Matlab listboxes and editboxes can be used to display rich-contents HTML-formatted strings, which is ideal for log panels.

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September 18, 2013 15 Comments

Variables Editor scrolling

The Matlab Variables Editor can be accessed to provide immediate scrolling to a specified cell location.

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September 11, 2013 6 Comments

Function definition meta-info

There are multiple ways to retrieve meta-info about functions in Matlab.

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September 4, 2013 6 Comments

Allocation performance take 2

The clear function has some non-trivial effects on Matlab performance.

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August 14, 2013 6 Comments

treeTable

A description of a sortable, groupable tree-table control that can be used in Matlab is provided.

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August 6, 2013 89 Comments

Sparse data math info

Matlab contains multiple libraries for handling sparse data. These can report very detailed internal info.

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July 31, 2013 2 Comments

Undocumented Matlab MEX API

Matlab’s MEX API contains numerous undocumented functions, that can be extremely useful.

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July 24, 2013 6 Comments

Math libraries version info & upgrade

Matlab exposes undocumented info about its internal math libraries; these libraries can be upgraded manually.

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July 17, 2013 7 Comments

JGit-Matlab integration

JGit source-control integration package can easily be integrated in Matlab.

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July 10, 2013 6 Comments

Waterloo graphics animation and web deployment

Waterloo graphics can be updated very quickly in Matlab, enabling plot animation; web deployment of the graphics is also possible.

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July 3, 2013 12 Comments

Waterloo graphics beta

The Waterloo graphics library extends Matlab graphics with numerous customizable plots that can be embedded in Matlab figures.

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June 26, 2013 11 Comments

Using Java 7 in Matlab R2013a and earlier

Java 7 can be installed on Matlab releases that currently have Java 6. This article describes the process.

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June 19, 2013 15 Comments

A couple of internal Matlab bugs and workarounds

A couple of undocumented Matlab bugs have simple workarounds.

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June 12, 2013 4 Comments

Matlab-Latex interface

Matlab’s support for Latex has some hidden quirks

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June 5, 2013 14 Comments

Real-time trading system demo

A real-time Matlab-based end-to-end trading system demo is presented

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May 29, 2013 1 Comment

Displaying animated GIFs

It is possible to easily display animated images in Matlab figure windows.

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May 22, 2013 16 Comments

HG2 update

HG2 appears to be nearing release. It is now a stable mature system.

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May 15, 2013 134 Comments

Improving save performance

There are many different ways of improving Matlab’s standard save function performance.

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May 8, 2013 19 Comments

New York City visit, 21-24 May 2013

I will be visiting New York 21-24 May 2013 to speak at the Matlab Computational Finance Conference.

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May 1, 2013 2 Comments

Improving fwrite performance

Standard file writing performance can be improved in Matlab in surprising ways.

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April 24, 2013 11 Comments

Setting class property types

Matlab’s class properties have a simple and effective mechanism for setting their type.

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April 18, 2013 40 Comments
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Recent Comments
  • Alessandro Beda (10 days 10 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 (12 days 0 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...
  • Yair Altman (15 days 19 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 (16 days 7 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 (20 days 8 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 (20 days 11 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 (23 days 22 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
  • Yair Altman (32 days 20 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 (32 days 21 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 (34 days 6 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 (34 days 7 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 (42 days 10 hours ago): Dear Iliya, remove uibutton, instead of using the “WindowButtonDownFcnR 21; of uifigure is working for me.
  • Nicholas (51 days 21 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...
  • Yair Altman (52 days 4 hours ago): Nicholas – yes, I used it in a compiled Windows app using R2022b (no update). You didn’t specify the Matlab code location that threw the error so I can’t help...
  • Nicholas (53 days 1 hour ago): Hi Yair, Have you attempted your displayWebPage utility (or the LightweightHelpPanel in general) within a compiled application? It appears to fail in apps derived from both R2022b...
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