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 9 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 »

Mohit (6 days 16 hours ago): Hi Yair, I am trying to change keybindings to certain keys for many systems is there any way that we can change these settings. i can change in window dialogue like...
Jan Kappen (8 days 16 hours ago): @Eric, I’m just curious, is the new chart container class (https://de.mathworks.com/help /matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.ch artcontainer.chartcontainer-cl ass.html) the...
Sam (15 days 1 hour ago): Doesn’t work for me! I am using Matlab 2018a, no different at all, even the exe file size is the same.
Joonas T. Holmi (30 days 18 hours ago): Very good comment Yair! I posted the above function too hastily… I will have to apologize for claiming above that it allows updating MATLAB’s jar files without...
Yair Altman (32 days 14 hours ago): @Claudio – I don’t know exactly what you did in your code, the following works perfectly fine for me on R2020a: jComponent = com.jidesoft.combobox.DateComb oBox;...
Yair Altman (34 days 14 hours ago): Thanks for sharing Joonas – this seems useful indeed. Users who will use your script are probably savvy Java programmers, who don’t need a reminder of the dangers in...
Joonas T. Holmi (34 days 14 hours ago): Yair and others, I found yet another way to add files to Java’s class path. See the function java_class_path_add_before_sta tic(file) below. Benefit of this new method...
Joonas T. Holmi (35 days 22 hours ago): Krishnan, It is ‘java.lang.System.getPro perty‘ and ‘java.lang.System.setPro perty‘. I read that JVM uses ‘java.class.path’ content only...
claudio (43 days 8 hours ago): Hi Yair i’m trying to set default string in DateComboBox to display before selecting date from date panel jElement.getEditor.getEditorCo mponent.setText('Set default date')...
Loren Shure (48 days 16 hours ago): Hi Yair- Very nice example showing people how to delve in – plus a nice heads up for us to always go back and look at our shipping code. Probably feval was the only option...
Michelle Hirsch (51 days 9 hours ago): Thanks Yair, as always, for the thoughtful post. I’ve forwarded it to the folks from both the Statistics team and the Performance team for their input. Happy Pesach!
Maurizio (66 days 10 hours ago): Hi Yair, how can I define a callback for a cell/row/column selection? In createTable you can define a data changed callback, but if you simply select a cell, how can you define a...
Donato (68 days 10 hours ago): Hi Yair, it seems that in Matlab R2019b this method doesn’t work. Have you some solutions? Thanks.
Maurizio (69 days 21 hours ago): Thank you Yair, I’ve supposed it, but I was not sure. Maurizio
Yair Altman (70 days 11 hours ago): headers is a simple cell array of strings (column header names). I thought that was pretty obvious from the context… Additional types of uitable customizations are...