GUI

Matlab callbacks for uifigure JavaScript events

Matlab callback code can be attached to JavaScript events in web-based uifigures.

August 15, 2018 3 Comments Read More »

Customizing web-GUI uipanel

We can customize Matlab's new web-based GUI panels in many interesting ways. Here's how...

August 1, 2018 One Comment Read More »

Scrollable GUI panels

Scrollbars can easily be added to Matlab panels, to enable scroll-panes of GUI controls and axes.

July 25, 2018 3 Comments Read More »

Sliders in Matlab GUI – part 2

Matlab contains a variety of ways to define/display slider controls in GUI windows.

July 5, 2018 8 Comments Read More »

Adding custom properties to GUI objects

It is very easy to add custom user-defined properties and methods to GUI handles and Java references in Matlab.

February 15, 2018 6 Comments Read More »

IP address input control

A built-in JIDE control can be used in Matlab GUI for IP-address entry/display.

January 31, 2018 3 Comments Read More »

Toolbar button labels

GUI toolbar button labels can easily be set and customized using underlying Java components.

January 8, 2018 No Comments Read More »

PlotEdit context-menu customization

A combination of Matlab and Java Robot commands to automate a certain animation can be used when we cannot access underlying GUI/graphics code.

December 13, 2017 No Comments Read More »

Builtin PopupPanel widget

We can use a built-in Matlab popup-panel widget control to display lightweight popups that are attached to a figure window.

December 6, 2017 One Comment Read More »

As I have repeatedly posted in recent years, Matlab is advancing towards web-based GUI. The basic underlying technology is more-or-less stable: an HTML/Javascript webpage that is created-on-the-fly and rendered in

November 27, 2017 5 Comments Read More »

Jianfei (1 day 0 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 (6 days 19 hours 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 (12 days 9 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (14 days 11 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 (16 days 20 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 (21 days 22 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...
James (29 days 17 hours ago): Is there a way to change the location of the window? They pop up at random locations and the user has to chase them down.
Robin (30 days 1 hour ago): Hi Yair, This has been a great help. With the removal of com.mathworks sometime in the future (as announced in R2020b), is there an alternative? For me, just getting a preference...
Eric Dziekonski (51 days 22 hours ago): This is fantastic! Thanks everyone! To get access to CEF on 2019b, I had to take the advise of Jeffery Devereux and Xiangrui Li. warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % suppress...
Yair Altman (52 days 4 hours ago): jPanel1.setParent(jPanel2) will reparent jPanel1 (and similarly any Java component/container) inside jPanel2 (any Java container). While this might work, it seems to me to be an...
Eivind (52 days 19 hours ago): Hi, Thanks for a great function! I was trying to put the main panel of my figure into a scrollable panel with the goal of zooming into the panel using shift+scroll and scrolling up...
Yair Altman (67 days 5 hours ago): There is no direct way to replicate the CW in a GUI window, you’ll need to display the text in the GUI using your program logic. Here is one possible implementation that...
Sunki Reddy Gunugu (69 days 3 hours ago): hi 1.i would like to know how the error in command window of matlab is captured and displayed in the GUI with the same color in CW 2. Is their any way to replicate the...
Matthias Brenneis (71 days 22 hours ago): Hi, thank you so much for the inspiring work and comments! My issue is: As soon as the panel gets an axes, the panel is no longer transparent: f =...
Collin (91 days 19 hours ago): Yair, In 2020a Mathworks added this semi-useful class matlab.ui.internal.JavaMigrati onTools Which contains static methods to call javacomponent, actxcontrol or to get an...