Customizing help popup contents
The built-in HelpPopup, available since Matlab R2007b, has a back-door that enables displaying arbitrary text, HTML and URL web-pages.
Desktop
Accessing the Matlab Editor
The Matlab Editor can be accessed programmatically, for a wide variety of possible uses - this article shows how.
R2009b keyboard bindings
The new Matlab release R2009b includes the ability to customize keyboard bindings for the editor and Command Window. However, there are still some uses for the EditorMacro utility and its
EditorMacro v2 – setting Command Window key-bindings
The EditorMacro utility was extended to support built-in Matlab Editor and Command-Window actions and key-bindings. This post describes the changes and the implementation details.
Setting status-bar text
The Matlab desktop and figure windows have a usable statusbar which can only be set using undocumented methods. This post shows how to set the status-bar text.
Non-textual editor actions
The UIINSPECT utility can be used to expand EditorMacro capabilities to non-text-insertion actions. This is how:
EditorMacro – assign a keyboard macro in the Matlab editor
EditorMacro is a new utility that enables setting keyboard macros in the Matlab editor. this post details its inner workings.
Setting the Matlab desktop layout programmatically
The Matlab desktop enables saving and switching layouts using the main menu. This post shows how to do so programmatically.
Changing system preferences programmatically
Matlab user/system preferences can be changed programmatically, from within your Matlab application or from the Matlab desktop command prompt. This post details how.
cprintf – display formatted color text in the Command Window
cprintf is a utility that utilized undocumented Matlab desktop functionalities to display color and underline-styled formatted text in the Command Window