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GUI automation utilities

This article explains a couple of Matlab utilities that use Java's Robot class to programmatically control mouse and keyboard actions

September 22, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

GUI automation using a Robot

This article explains how Java's Robot class can be used to programmatically control mouse and keyboard actions

September 15, 2010 37 Comments Read More »

Docs of old Matlab releases

MathWorks recently posted archived documentation for many previous Matlab releases

September 7, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

uitree

This article describes the undocumented Matlab uitree function, which displays data in a GUI tree component

August 11, 2010 80 Comments Read More »

COM/ActiveX tips & tricks

This article describes several little-known tips useful for COM / ActiveX programming in Matlab

July 28, 2010 6 Comments Read More »

Modifying Matlab's Look-and-Feel

Matlab's entire Look-and-Feel (PLAF, or L&F) can be modified at the control or application level - this article shows how

July 7, 2010 53 Comments Read More »

Tab panels – uitab and relatives

This article describes several undocumented Matlab functions that support tab-panels

June 23, 2010 116 Comments Read More »

Plot performance

Undocumented inner plot mechanisms can significantly improve plotting performance

June 16, 2010 36 Comments Read More »

Matlab layout managers: uicontainer and relatives

Matlab contains a few undocumented GUI layout managers, which greatly facilitate handling GUI components in dynamically-changing figures.

June 9, 2010 25 Comments Read More »

Modifying default toolbar/menubar actions

The default Matlab figure toolbar and menu actions can easily be modified using simple pure-Matlab code. This article explains how.

June 2, 2010 9 Comments Read More »

Cookie (75 days 22 hours ago): If you have the parallel toolbox there is a method byteArray = distcompserialize64(myData) which appears to function the same as getByteStreamFromArray()> but does not seem to...
Enrico Segre (77 days 11 hours ago): Actually, here you’re talking, AFAIU, only of callbacks fired by events generated in Matlab graphic windows. I argue that they a little special by themselves, and...
Nina797 (88 days 6 hours ago): Hey Yair, I really appreciate your fantastic blog! I had no idea these amazing features were out there, and many of them are exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks again!
Yair Altman (132 days 5 hours ago): see the details in my reply above
Gehan (132 days 5 hours ago): The link at https://www.mathworks.com/matl abcentral/fileexchange/30672-m xgetpropertyptr no longer contain the files mxGetPropertyPtr.c mxGetPropertyPtr.h I downloaded the folder....
Yair Altman (132 days 5 hours ago): I believe that you are referring to James Tursa’s submission – you can get it here: https://www.mathworks.com/matl abcentral/fileexchange/30672-m xgetpropertyptr....
Gehan Abouelseoud (132 days 6 hours ago): These files are no longer available what can I do? mxGetPropertyPtr.c mxGetPropertyPtr.h
Yair Altman (177 days 10 hours ago): @Bob – you are mistaken: s=warning(...) returns the warnings state as it was before the state was modified, so my code is correct. There is no need for a separate call to...
Bob Pownalll (179 days 4 hours ago): Thanks! I was trying to figure out how to do exactly this (i.e. Use a try / catch block with something that generated a warning, not an error) and you pointed me to a solution!...
Gianmarco (200 days 10 hours ago): Hi Yair, what about if I would like to set a specific background and font color to the table row header?
Antonio (220 days 10 hours ago): Note Intel’s MKL implementations of BLAS/LAPACK are already multi-threaded, so it is likely that you won’t achieve a vast improvement (the overall performance could even...
Yair Altman (264 days 8 hours ago): which Matlab version are you using?
Matlab-user (264 days 9 hours ago): I am trying to do it using uipushtool since uisplittool is not supported anymore. I am able to insert the image icon in the toolbar, but not sure how to get the dropdown (trying...
Yair Altman (289 days 4 hours ago): @Peter – I’m happy to hear that you found my work useful. Feel free to use my algorithm and code for any non-commercial research usage. I just ask that you add...
Niko (297 days 3 hours ago): jTabGroup = getappdata(handle(hTabGroup),' JTabbedPane'); doesn’t work anymore in R2023b 🙁 when i do jTabGroup = findjobj(hTabGroup,'class','MJ TabbedPane'); I get an object of...