Customizing print setup
Matlab figures print-setup can be customized to automatically prepare the figure for printing in a specific configuration
Medium risk of breaking in future versions
Undocumented scatter plot behavior
The scatter plot function has an undocumented behavior when plotting more than 100 points: it returns a single unified patch object handle, rather than a patch handle for each specific
Detecting window focus events
Matlab does not have any documented method to detect window focus events (gain/loss). This article describes an undocumented way to detect such events.
Figure toolbar customizations
Matlab's toolbars can be customized using a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks. This article describes how to customize the Matlab figure toolbar.
Figure toolbar components
Matlab's toolbars can be customized using a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks. This article describes how to access existing toolbar icons and how to add non-button toolbar components.
Setting listbox mouse actions
Matlab listbox uicontrol can be modified to detect mouse events for right-click context menus, dynamic tooltips etc.
Context-Sensitive Help
Matlab has a hidden/unsupported built-in mechanism for easy implementation of context-sensitive help
Setting status-bar components
Matlab status-bars are Java containers in which we can add GUI controls such as progress-bars, not just simple text labels
Setting status-bar text
The Matlab desktop and figure windows have a usable statusbar which can only be set using undocumented methods. This post shows how to set the status-bar text.
Legend '-DynamicLegend' semi-documented feature
The built-in Matlab legend function has a very useful semi-documented feature for automatic dynamic update, which is explained here.