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 2 Comments 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 8 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 2 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 »

Amin zaami (1 day 7 hours ago): I have the same problem as Nicholas, The function works fine on R2022, but when compiled it fails (I used com.mathworks.mlwidgets.help.L ightweightHelpPanel), I tried compiling...
Rolf (19 days 14 hours ago): Disclosure: This comes from the developer/vendor of the Code Checker for MATLAB. Have a look at the Code Checker for MATLAB by MonkeyProof Solutions which has many such (configurable)...
Yair Altman (27 days 7 hours ago): In theory you could use the data: URI scheme (e.g. .load('data:text/html,<html ><body>Hello world</body></html>')), but for some reason it doesn’t work well in...
Sebastian (27 days 13 hours ago): Thanks for your update to the now unsupported `HTMLBrowserPanel`. I tried to replace it with the `LightweightHelpPanel` but the application I am working on is showing generated...
Leuze (49 days 14 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
Eric Delgado (78 days 16 hours ago): Hey Yair, I think your site is the right place to share that I wrote ccTools, a lib that allows a lot of customizations of Matlab built-in web components (such as uifigure,...
Eric Delgado (78 days 16 hours ago): Hey guys, first of all, thanks to @Yair, your site saved me a lot of times! 🙂 That’s why I am sharing that I wrote m2mlapp (*.m => *.mlapp) file conversion, that...
François (95 days 14 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (96 days 12 hours ago): I am not familiar with a universal catch-all tab-completion mechanism for all functions, and it also doesn’t make much sense to me, because different functions use...
Arye (97 days 6 hours ago): hi, is there a universal functionSignature.json file that will allow my to get the function hints when opening brackets of my funcs? something that automaticly recognize my function...
Sunham (100 days 1 hour ago): This is an old article, but the issue persists even in 2023. 2023a: z = mat2cell(1:1e6,1,repmat(1,1,1e 6)); f = @() cellfun(‘isempty’, z); g = @() cellfun(@isempty,z);...
Yair Altman (109 days 15 hours ago): Robot only runs when you tell it to run a command such as keyPress. If you don’t tell it to run a command, it uses no CPU, so there’s no need to remove the Robot...
Eric (110 days 2 hours ago): Hey @Kevin, can you share your code about create group of figures in the AppContainer? The container of multiples uifigures could be an amazing improvement over AppDesigner and its...
Elsa Smith (110 days 17 hours ago): I recently used java.awt.Robot to perform GUI testing on MATLAB and found it to be an extremely easy and useful way to control mouse movements.
Elsa Smith (110 days 17 hours ago): I’m suspecting that the slow performance of my GUI may be due to the use of java.awt.Robot. Is there a way to cancel/stop/remove the robot after it has been created, or is...