Hidden property

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 »

Customizing contour plots part 2

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

November 12, 2017 11 Comments Read More »

MathWorks-solicited Java survey

MathWorks is soliciting user feedbacks about the use of Java components in Matlab programs.

March 23, 2017 2 Comments Read More »

Customizing uifigures part 1

Matlab's new web-based uifigures can be customized in a variety of undocumented ways.

July 21, 2016 12 Comments Read More »

Figure window customizations

Matlab figure windows can be customized in numerous manners using the underlying Java Frame reference.

June 1, 2016 No Comments Read More »

Customizing contour plots part 2

The contour lines of 3D Matlab plot can be customized in many different ways. This is the 2nd article on this issue.

March 9, 2016 5 Comments Read More »

Customizing contour plots

Contour labels, lines and fill patches can easily be customized in Matlab HG2.

November 18, 2015 12 Comments Read More »

Using linkaxes vs. linkprop

linkaxes has a built-in limitation, so using linkprop may sometimes be beneficial.

July 22, 2015 8 Comments Read More »

Undocumented view transformation matrix

Matlab's view function returns an undocumented output transformation matrix.

April 15, 2015 5 Comments Read More »

Customizing Matlab uipanels

Matlab uipanel controls can be customized using Java in ways that are impossible with plain Matlab.

February 25, 2015 14 Comments Read More »

Tommy (3 days 23 hours ago): Just adding my implementation inspired by Sebastian and i3v. It handles the state reset that occurs when uimode changes. Also, has options to ignore/append for specific modes....
Niko (8 days 15 hours ago): Hi, Has anyone acomplished to install Andreas’ tool for Matlab version ‘9.11.0.1809720 (R2021b) Update 1’ or higher? I think the fact that Matlab now uses the stupid...
Gabriel (30 days 10 hours ago): This didn’t work when trying to link y axes across the plots in each column and x axes across the plots in each row on an (m x n) tiledlayout. On matlab R2021a found that I...
Ana Gomez (58 days 20 hours ago): I understand Yair, Thank you very much for all your valuable assistance. I think I can manage with the options I have now, but I will contact you as professional consultant if I...
Yair Altman (61 days 8 hours ago): @Ana – it appears that you need to customize a complex GUI, and require more than simple answers to simple queries, which is beyond the scope of a blog Q&A....
Ana Gomez (63 days 10 hours ago): Thank you very much Yair. yes I was doing something wrong. I was able to remove the root now 🙂 As you say I am using the Java-based component, in a Matlab 2016b, quite old, but...
Yair Altman (65 days 5 hours ago): Ana, I believe that you are mistaken. Assuming you’re using the Java-based (not the new web-based) checkboxtree component (as described in https://undocumentedmatlab....
Ana Gomez (65 days 14 hours ago): Thank you for the prompt answer! Is this also possible with checkboxtree? Because I am having some trouble with the method setRootVisible in this case. No method...
Yair Altman (65 days 16 hours ago): @Ana – mtree.Tree.setRootVisible(fals e)
Ana Gomez (65 days 16 hours ago): Good morning Yair, and thanks for these really useful series 🙂 I am wondering if it is possible to create this tree but without the “root”, I mean, in your example,...
Peter (72 days 16 hours ago): It’s working! THANK YOU!!
Yair Altman (73 days 6 hours ago): @Peter – tab heights are set by the Operating System’s Look and Feel. You can either change the Look-and-Feel used by Matlab, or use the much larger tabs in the GUI...
Peter (73 days 6 hours ago): Hello again Mr. Altman and thank you for all you work and help! I have a question. I want to resize the TABS, i mean the small things at the top, that says “tab1,...
Yair Altman (74 days 16 hours ago): @Santiago – AFAIK you cannot parent a Matlab uimenu or uitoolbar to a uitab. However, you can add Java components (in your case, JMenuBar and JToolBar) using the...
Yair Altman (74 days 16 hours ago): @Peter – you can modify the scrollbars by accessing them directly. For example: % Create a multi-line (Max>1) editbox uicontrol hEditbox = uicontrol('style','edit',...