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Matlab toolstrip – part 2 (ToolGroup App)

Matlab users can create custom Apps with toolstrips and docked figures.

December 5, 2018 12 Comments Read More »

Matlab toolstrip – part 1

Matlab contains extensive toolstrip (ribbon) functionality that can be integrated in user programs (GUI).

September 3, 2018 5 Comments Read More »

Spicing up the Matlab Editor

Matlab's Editor and Workspace can be enhanced quite significantly using an open-source utility.

March 30, 2018 One Comment Read More »

The HotLinks feature

feature('HotLinks') can be used to temporarily disable hyperlinks and other markups in the Matlab console.

October 24, 2017 One Comment Read More »

User-defined tab completions – take 2

Matlab has changed the mechanism that enables user-defined tab-completion of function inputs.

July 12, 2017 9 Comments Read More »

Working with non-standard DPI displays

Matlab uses logical (scaled) pixel positions. With high-DPI displays, this might cause problems, but it is easy to retrieve the physical (unscaled) pixel values.

November 9, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Handling red Java console errors

Red Java errors are sometimes displayed in the Matlab console. They can be removed or avoided in a variety of means.

June 29, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Viewing saved profiling results

We can easily use saved profiling results to analyze, view and compare profiling results of multiple runs.

May 18, 2016 No Comments Read More »

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 2

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

December 30, 2015 5 Comments Read More »

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 1

Matlab Desktop shortcuts can be programmatically accessed and customized.

December 23, 2015 7 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • Josh (17 hours 39 minutes ago): Dear Yair, Small typo; you wrote >>Move lines up or down – CTRL + ALT + UP or DOWN allows you to move selected lines up or down but it’s actually ALT+SHIFT then UP/DOWN...
  • Yair Altman (7 days 12 hours ago): You can try to increase the Java heap memory size in the Matlab preferences (General => Java Heap Memory). Any changes to the settings will only take effect after restarting...
  • Thomas (7 days 13 hours ago): Hello, thanks for sharing! I currently receive the following memory error message when using savezip with a big object (Matlab R2020b, Windows 10). Error using...
  • Yair Altman (10 days 21 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
  • Manzn (10 days 23 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
  • Yerlan (12 days 4 hours ago): Hello Mr. Altman, how can I disable menu items in the context menu? E.g. when I am trying to do this: menuItems = jmenu.getSubElements; menuItem1 = menuItems(1);...
  • Yair Altman (12 days 20 hours ago): Thanks for the note Eric – you forgot the crucial call to jTable.setLabelTable(labelTabl e) – I added it into your code snippet above.
  • Erik (14 days 7 hours ago): Thank you for this — I don’t know if this has been mentioned anywhere else before, but it could be useful to mention how to add custom labels to a jslider. I did the...
  • turhv (27 days 2 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
  • Jianfei (60 days 6 hours ago): I have tried the MathWorks CheckBoxList in Matlab 2015b. For whatever the reason, I can’t change the font properties. I can change the font color, but changing font properties...
  • Donato Coppola (66 days 1 hour ago): Hi Yair, I have a problem with the double format. When I run the treeTable function, the numbers in double format cells are displayed with comma as decimal separator. How can...
  • Kim (71 days 15 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
  • Adil (73 days 17 hours ago): Thank you for the blog, it was useful for me. I have a file named App_project.mlapp.zip and when I extract it through Winzip it gives all the files exactly as you described above. I...
  • Mr Ashley Trowell (76 days 2 hours ago): Thank you so much for this analysis. Also, I find it somewhat horrifying. The take away seems to be to use && / || and NOT and / or. Thanks a bunch! ~Ashley
  • Matt (81 days 4 hours ago): Late reply I know, but you can call custom shortcuts with alt-#. Hold down Alt to see what number is assigned to the shortcuts you’ve created. Now if there was a way to create a...
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