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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 17 Comments Read More »

export_fig

The export_fig utility enables publication-quality Matlab plotting output.

January 21, 2015 20 Comments Read More »

Nicholas (1 day 19 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...
Nicholas (1 day 19 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 (2 days 2 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 (2 days 22 hours 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...
João Neves (6 days 3 hours ago): I am on matlab 2021a, this still works: url = struct(struct(struct(struct(hF ig).Controller).PlatformHost). CEF).URL; but the html document is empty. Is there still a way to do...
Yair Altman (9 days 1 hour ago): Perhaps the class() function could assist you. Or maybe just wrap different access methods in a try-catch so that if one method fails you could access the data using another...
Jeroen Boschma (9 days 4 hours ago): Never mind, the new UI components have an HTML panel available. Works for me…
Alexandre (9 days 5 hours ago): Hi, Is there a way to test if data dictionnatry entry are signal, simulink parameters, variables … I need to access their value, but the access method depends on the data...
Nicholas (9 days 19 hours ago): In case anyone is looking for more info on the toolbar: I ran into some problems creating a toolbar with the lightweight panel. Previously, the Browser Panel had an addToolbar...
Jeroen Boschma (13 days 2 hours ago): I do not seem to get the scrollbars (horizontal…) working in Matlab 2020b. Snippets of init-code (all based on Yair’s snippets on this site) handles.text_explorer...
Yair Altman (41 days 4 hours ago): m_map is a mapping tool, not even created by MathWorks and not part of the basic Matlab system. I have no idea why you think that the customizations to the builtin bar function...
chengji chen (41 days 11 hours ago): Hi, I have tried the method, but it didn’t work. I plot figure by m_map toolbox, the xticklabel will add to the yticklabel at the left-down corner, so I want to move down...
Yair Altman (49 days 4 hours ago): @Alexander – this is correct. Matlab stopped including sqlite4java in R2021b (it was still included in 21a). You can download the open-source sqlite4java project from...
Alexander Eder (54 days 23 hours ago): Unfortunately Matlab stopped shipping sqlite4java starting with R2021(b?)
K (61 days 10 hours ago): Is there a way to programmatically manage which figure gets placed where? Let’s say I have 5 figures docked, and I split it into 2 x 1, I want to place 3 specific figures on the...