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 7 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 29 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 (8 days 4 hours ago): There is no direct way to replicate the CW in a GUI window, you’ll need to display the text in the GUI using your program logic. Here is one possible implementation that...
Sunki Reddy Gunugu (10 days 2 hours ago): hi 1.i would like to know how the error in command window of matlab is captured and displayed in the GUI with the same color in CW 2. Is their any way to replicate the...
Matthias Brenneis (12 days 20 hours ago): Hi, thank you so much for the inspiring work and comments! My issue is: As soon as the panel gets an axes, the panel is no longer transparent: f =...
Collin (32 days 18 hours ago): Yair, In 2020a Mathworks added this semi-useful class matlab.ui.internal.JavaMigrati onTools Which contains static methods to call javacomponent, actxcontrol or to get an...
Yair Altman (36 days 3 hours ago): @Pierre – thanks for sharing this clever useful trick
Pierre (36 days 3 hours ago): Hello, This post has been really useful to me. I just want to share a small trick. I have no idea whether it is reproducible or how it works, but it does the job for me (Win 10,...
Hannes (43 days 2 hours ago): It is also not working for me on R2019a Update 5. Best Hannes.
Yair Altman (47 days 23 hours ago): @Peter – the graphics system might not be fully initialized by the time that the startup script is being executed by the Matlab engine. I suggest placing the relevant code...
Philip (48 days 4 hours ago): Yair, How would I implement a renderer for com.jidesoft.combobox.DateSpin nerComboBox so that the editor remains the same (combo box with spinner) but the renderer displays as a...
Reza (48 days 9 hours ago): Yair, I found the solution by using “hFills(i).StripDataR 21;. Thanks
Reza (48 days 12 hours ago): Hi Yair, There is “VertexData” in property of “TriangleStrip .FacePrims”, but there is no information about patch “faces” that can connect vertices...
Peter (50 days 17 hours ago): I have a problem with putting this into the startup.m to be executed at the beginning of the MATLAB session. jDesktop = com.mathworks.mde.desk.MLDeskt op.getInstance; try cmdWin =...
Alex (56 days 1 hour ago): Hi, I was wondering if there is a possibility to integrate a text field with label and another table in one cell of the tree table, or is it restricted to ComboBoxes and Checkboxes? Is...
Jan (63 days 19 hours ago): Is there a reason why this function was removed from the Matlab File Exchange? I prefer a simplified DBSTACK solution: function flag = isMultipleCall() s = dbstack(); flag = (numel(s) >...
geetha (64 days 3 hours ago): Hi am uitree and some line am getting this error error in @(tree,evd)evalin('base',sprin tf(['ldp_temp_blockhandle=%.20 f;','set(ldp_temp_blockhandle, ''UserData'',setfield(get(l...