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Blocked wait with timeout for asynchronous events

It is easy to convert asynchronous (streaming) events into a blocked wait in Matlab.

May 13, 2018 No 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 »

Enabling user callbacks during zoom/pan

Matlab zoom, pan and rotate3d modes hijack the user's figure callbacks, but this can be overridden.

October 28, 2015 14 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 HG2 graphics events

Matlab's new HG2 graphics engine includes many new undocumented events that could be used in various ways.

May 27, 2015 18 Comments Read More »

Property value change listeners

HG handle property changes can be trapped in a user-defined callback.

August 13, 2014 14 Comments Read More »

Disabling menu entries in deployed docked figures

Matlab's standard menu items can and should be removed from deployed docked figures. This article explains how.

November 14, 2012 14 Comments Read More »

Waiting for asynchronous events

The Matlab waitfor function can be used to wait for asynchronous Java/ActiveX events, as well as with timeouts.

July 18, 2012 33 Comments Read More »

Setting axes tick labels format

Matlab plot axes ticks can be customized in a way that will automatically update whenever the tick values change.

April 18, 2012 18 Comments Read More »

Blurred Matlab figure window

Matlab figure windows can be blurred using a semi-transparent overlaid window - this article explains how

April 20, 2011 2 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • Yair Altman (1 day 8 hours ago): Ren – This is usually the expected behavior, which avoids unnecessary duplications of the Excel process in CPU/memory. If you want to kill the process you can always run...
  • Yair Altman (1 day 22 hours ago): When you use plot() without hold(‘on’), each new plot() clears the axes and draws a new line, so your second plot() of p2 caused the first plot() line (p1) to be...
  • Cesim Dumlu (8 days 5 hours ago): Hello. I am trying to do a gradient plot for multiple functions to be displayed on the same axes and each one is colorcoded by respective colordata, using the same scaling. The...
  • Yair Altman (16 days 8 hours ago): @Veronica – you are using the new version of uitree, which uses HTML-based uifigures, and my post was about the Java-based uitree which uses legacy Matlab figures. For...
  • Veronica Taurino (16 days 8 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
  • Veronica Taurino (16 days 9 hours ago): Hello, I am just trying to change the uitree node name as you suggested: txt1 = 'abra'; txt2 = 'kadabra'; node.setName([txt1,txt2]); >> "Unrecognized method, property, or...
  • Yair Altman (19 days 9 hours ago): The version of JGraph that you downloaded uses a newer version of Java (11) than the one that Matlab supports (8). You need to either (1) find an earlier version of JGraph that...
  • mrv (19 days 13 hours ago): hello, I used MATLAB 2019b update9, I have add jgraphx.jar to javaclassapth, and restart matlab, but still got errors below: Warning: A Java exception occurred trying to load the...
  • xuejie wu (43 days 9 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
  • Yair Altman (55 days 1 hour ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
  • Sagar Chawla (55 days 1 hour ago): I want to know how to change the x-axis to the z-axis. I mean the position. Like if there is a 3d animated graph then how to change position of the axis. X-axis in place of...
  • Ren (55 days 2 hours ago): I noticed that xlsread will create a hidden and never-dying special server that always has priority when actxGetRunningServer is called. So this cause a problem that no matter how many...
  • Ben Abbott (58 days 16 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()
  • Yair Altman (58 days 19 hours ago): @Ben – it looks perfectly ok (with color gradient and all) on my R2022a… Perhaps you missed some of the steps (e.g. setting the ColorBinding to 'interpolated') or...
  • Ben Abbott (58 days 20 hours ago): The graded color is not working for me using R2021a. The plot “HG2 plot line color, transparency gradient” looks exactly like “Transparent HG2 plot...
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