Icons

Toolbar button labels

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

January 8, 2018 No Comments Read More »

Icon images & text in Matlab uicontrols

HTML can be used to add image icons to Matlab listbox and popup (drop-down) controls.

September 28, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 1

Matlab Desktop shortcuts can be programmatically accessed and customized.

December 23, 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 »

Customizing listbox/combobox items

Matlab listboxes can be customized using custom Java cell-renderers.

September 17, 2014 2 Comments Read More »

Animated busy (spinning) icon

An animated spinning icon label can easily be embedded in Matlab GUI.

April 16, 2014 51 Comments Read More »

Rich-contents log panel

Matlab listboxes and editboxes can be used to display rich-contents HTML-formatted strings, which is ideal for log panels.

September 18, 2013 15 Comments Read More »

Images in Matlab uicontrols & labels

Images can be added to Matlab controls and labels in a variety of manners, documented and undocumented.

October 17, 2012 28 Comments Read More »

Customizing menu items part 3

Matlab menu items can easily display custom icons, using just a tiny bit of Java magic powder.

May 9, 2012 39 Comments Read More »

Uitab colors, icons and images

Matlab's semi-documented tab panels can be customized using some undocumented hacks

November 10, 2010 37 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (4 days 21 hours ago): The default Java Look&Feel for UI buttons paints the border together with the contents, and apparently prevents changing both of them together (reference). Changing to a...
Jacob (5 days 6 hours ago): So, I’m having trouble finding information on this. If I change the border of a button, then change the background color, the border resets. Then I am not able to change the...
Sky (7 days 14 hours ago): Matlab seems to catch on to mustBeMember and offers tab completion options when it is used. classdef foo < matlab.mixin.SetGet properties Coordinates {mustBeMember(Coordinates,{...
Yair Altman (13 days 20 hours ago): Philip – perhaps you forgot to update the table’s model to a DefaultStyleTableModel. In any case, this topic is way outside the scope of this blog, which is...
Philip (13 days 20 hours ago): Yair, I am a bit of a novice at programming with Java. Would you please expound a bit more or provide an example on how to use JIDE’s CellStyle in MATLAB? I have successfully...
Yair Altman (18 days 7 hours ago): @Philip – in the Java-based uitable you can use JIDE’s CellStyle to customize specific cells. Refer to JIDE’s documentation for details. In the web-based...
Philip (18 days 8 hours ago): Yair, You may have addressed this already in the past, if so, please kindly point me to the appropriate article(s). My issue is with creating a table which has (not column but) cell...
Yair Altman (23 days 5 hours ago): The javacomponent function returns 2 objects: a Java reference and a Matlab container. Simply set the value of the Units property of the Matlab container to...
Neeks (23 days 10 hours ago): This looks elegant. Thank you. One issue I am not able to sort out – on maximizing the figure window the location of “javax.swing.JSliderR 21; object does not scale...
Xiangrui Li (28 days 2 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thank you for digging into this. It seems I need following to get CEF container = struct(controllerProps.Platfor mHost);
Yair Altman (28 days 13 hours ago): Matlab recently modified the internal structure. You can now access the web-window (CEF) object as follows: hFig = uifigure(...); warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % suppress...
Xiangrui Li (29 days 3 hours ago): It seems the`Container` is removed. I see this error in R2019b: container = controllerProps.Container; Reference to non-existent field 'Container'.
Tim (36 days 7 hours ago): Thank you for this post, it is very useful. It seems that when using plot3, if I have more than 25,000 points and I change my figure size or rotate the image, the MarkerHandle values...
Rohit (42 days 12 hours ago): How do we put “MJDimensionPicker” ; in a “TSdropDownButton” ? (As it is in [ View (Tab) –> Tiles (Column) –> Custom (Drop-Down Button)] ). Thanks again...
Yair Altman (44 days 21 hours ago): Andrea – sqlite4java is an open-source project (https://code.google.com/archi ve/p/sqlite4java). You can modify its code and/or submit an issue on that project’s...