setPrompt – Setting the Matlab Desktop prompt
The Matlab Desktop's Command-Window prompt can easily be modified using some undocumented features
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Rich Matlab editbox contents
The Matlab editbox uicontrol does not handle HTML contents as do other uicontrols. In this article I show how this limitation can be removed.
FindJObj GUI – display container hierarchy
The FindJObj utility can be used to present a GUI that displays a Matlab container's internal Java components, properties and callbacks.
FindJObj – find a Matlab component's underlying Java object
The FindJObj utility can be used to access and display the internal components of Matlab controls and containers. This article explains its uses and inner mechanism.
Customizing Matlab's Workspace table
The Matlab Desktop's Workspace pane table can be customized, as described here
GUI integrated HTML panel
Simple HTML can be presented in a Java component integrated in Matlab GUI, without requiring the heavy browser control.
GUI integrated browser control
A fully-capable browser component is included in Matlab and can easily be incorporated in regular Matlab GUI applications. This article shows how.
Customizing help popup contents
The built-in HelpPopup, available since Matlab R2007b, has a back-door that enables displaying arbitrary text, HTML and URL web-pages.
Undocumented XML functionality
Matlab's built-in XML-processing functions have several undocumented features that can be used by Java-savvy users
Customizing Matlab labels
Matlab's text uicontrol is not very customizable, and does not support HTML or Tex formatting. This article shows how to display HTML labels in Matlab and some undocumented customizations