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Better MEX error messages

The default clunky and release-incompatible MEX error messages can be improved using a simple hack.

February 24, 2016 2 Comments Read More »

Simple GUI Tabs for Advanced Matlab Trading App

A new File Exchange utility enables to easily design GUI tabs using Matlab's GUIDE

February 17, 2016 15 Comments Read More »

Quirks with compiled Matlab DLLs

Several quirks with Matlab-compiled DLLs are discussed and workarounds suggested.

February 10, 2016 No Comments Read More »

Graphic sizing in Matlab R2015b

Matlab release R2015b's new "DPI-aware" nature broke some important functionality. Here's what can be done...

January 20, 2016 8 Comments Read More »

Capturing print events

Matlab print events can be trapped by users to enable easy printout customization.

July 8, 2015 3 Comments Read More »

JGraph in Matlab figures

JGraph is a powerful open-source Java library that can easily be integrated in Matlab figures.

July 1, 2015 8 Comments Read More »

copyobj behavior change in HG2

the behavior of Matlab's copyobj function changed in R2014b (HG2), and callbacks are no longer copied.

May 13, 2015 No Comments Read More »

Using Infiniband with Matlab Parallel Computing Toolbox

Infiniband networking can significantly improve PCT performance in Matlab parallelization and distributed computing.

March 26, 2015 2 Comments Read More »

Simulink Data Dictionary

Simulink contains undocumented public API for access to its data dictionary functionality.

February 11, 2015 15 Comments Read More »

export_fig

The export_fig utility enables publication-quality Matlab plotting output.

January 21, 2015 20 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (11 days 4 hours ago): @Veronica – you are using the new version of uitree, which uses HTML-based uifigures, and my post was about the Java-based uitree which uses legacy Matlab figures. For...
Veronica Taurino (11 days 4 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
Veronica Taurino (11 days 4 hours ago): Hello, I am just trying to change the uitree node name as you suggested: txt1 = 'abra'; txt2 = 'kadabra'; node.setName([txt1,txt2]); >> "Unrecognized method, property, or...
Yair Altman (14 days 4 hours ago): The version of JGraph that you downloaded uses a newer version of Java (11) than the one that Matlab supports (8). You need to either (1) find an earlier version of JGraph that...
mrv (14 days 9 hours ago): hello, I used MATLAB 2019b update9, I have add jgraphx.jar to javaclassapth, and restart matlab, but still got errors below: Warning: A Java exception occurred trying to load the...
xuejie wu (38 days 5 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
Yair Altman (49 days 21 hours ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
Sagar Chawla (49 days 21 hours ago): I want to know how to change the x-axis to the z-axis. I mean the position. Like if there is a 3d animated graph then how to change position of the axis. X-axis in place of...
Ren (49 days 21 hours ago): I noticed that xlsread will create a hidden and never-dying special server that always has priority when actxGetRunningServer is called. So this cause a problem that no matter how many...
Ben Abbott (53 days 12 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()
Yair Altman (53 days 15 hours ago): @Ben – it looks perfectly ok (with color gradient and all) on my R2022a… Perhaps you missed some of the steps (e.g. setting the ColorBinding to 'interpolated') or...
Ben Abbott (53 days 15 hours ago): The graded color is not working for me using R2021a. The plot “HG2 plot line color, transparency gradient” looks exactly like “Transparent HG2 plot...
Yair Altman (76 days 18 hours ago): Oliver – you probably forgot to update hMarkers.FaceColorType to ‘truecoloralpha‘: x=1:10; y=10*x; figure; hLine = plot(x,y,'o-'); drawnow...
Oliver (76 days 18 hours ago): This seems to have been disabled in the most recent version of Matlab (R2021b). When I use this method the hMarker.FaceColorData does change, but the markers are not made...
Yair Altman (95 days 16 hours ago): @Tim – the new uidatepicker() function only works with web-based figures (created using the uifigure() function or App Designer); it is not available on the legacy...