Handle graphics

Improving graphics interactivity

Matlab R2018b added default axes mouse interactivity at the expense of performance. Luckily, we can speed-up the default axes.

April 22, 2019 One Comment Read More »

Undocumented plot marker types

Undocumented plot marker styles can easily be accesses using a hidden plot-line property.

March 13, 2019 One Comment Read More »

Plot legend customization

Matlab plot legends and their internal components can be customized using a variety of undocumented properties that are easily accessible.

July 12, 2018 7 Comments Read More »

Auto-scale image colors

Images can be automatically color-scaled for maximum resolution, using the undocumented MarkedClean event.

February 21, 2018 One Comment 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 »

Customizing axes tick labels

Multiple customizations can be applied to tick labels.

January 24, 2018 5 Comments Read More »

Customizing histogram plots

Basic bar charts and histogram plots can be customized in important aspects.

January 17, 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 »

Customizing contour plots part 2

Matlab contour labels' color and font can easily be customized.

November 12, 2017 11 Comments Read More »

Tips for accelerating Matlab performance

My article on "Tips for Accelerating MATLAB Performance" was recently featured in the September 2017 Matlab newsletter digest.

October 5, 2017 2 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (16 days 8 hours ago): It is not clear from your comment what command you’re trying to use. You basically have 4 alternatives: To use the builtin saveas function To use the builtin...
Alvaro (16 days 8 hours ago): Hello all, First of all let me thank you for your posts they were very helpful. I implemented a code to show contour labels with scientific notation in latex format...
Yair Altman (21 days 13 hours ago): Perhaps the uihtml function can help you (R2019b or newer). In any case, uifiures use a radically different underlying technology than Java-based figures, so everything...
Neelakanda Bharathiraja (21 days 13 hours ago): Hi Yair, Please let us know how to create the same integrated browser control with uifigure.
matt (30 days 23 hours ago): There is no Edge in quiver, so this workaround will not help.
matt (30 days 23 hours ago): I very much wanted this to work with Quiver, and it does as long as the number of points is not too big. Using 2018a, I get the warnings/errors above even if placed in a single call to...
matse (36 days 8 hours ago): Is there a possibility to rotate the controllib.widget.Slider? So to have it vertical? Thanks!
Yair Altman (41 days 11 hours ago): Perhaps it’s because the table is empty, I don’t know. In any case, I think you can ignore this error, I don’t think that it affects the functionality.
Yeah (41 days 14 hours ago): I have the “Exception in thread “AWT-EventQueue-0″ java.lang.NullPointerException ” proplem.. and I add these lines in my function. the java warning message...
Yair Altman (51 days 17 hours ago): I assume that you refer to the html tags example for uitable at the bottom of the article. If you click a uitable cell, you enter editor mode, and this may behave in an...
Ajay Krishna (51 days 21 hours ago): Hello Yair, i tried replicating the example with all the cells center aligned. The problem is when i click the 1st cell the text of neighbouring cell changes to white or it...
Vinicius (53 days 5 hours ago): I would just like to thank you for your fantastic work. I was looking for ages for a SIMPLE way to do this!
todd welti (63 days 5 hours ago): Is there any way to prevent Matlab opening axis props window when you quickly turn off/on a plot line from the plot browser? I find that most annoying.
Yair Altman (65 days 5 hours ago): Perhaps you tried to access the class before you used javaaddpath to add the JAR file to the classpath. If Matlab fails to find a class, then it will not be able to access it...
mukesh Muthu (65 days 5 hours ago): i get the following error , im using matlab 2016b-64bit if i use graph = com.mxgraph.view.mxGraph Undefined variable "com" or class "com.mxgraph.view.mxGraph". if i use graph =...