Semi-documented feature

Matlab toolstrip – part 1

Matlab contains extensive toolstrip (ribbon) functionality that can be integrated in user programs (GUI).

September 3, 2018 5 Comments Read More »

Parsing XML strings

Matlab's xmlread function cannot process XML data directly, but this can easily be overcome.

February 1, 2017 8 Comments Read More »

Sending email/text messages from Matlab

Sending emails and SMS (text) messages from Matlab is easy, once you know a few quirks.

December 7, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Online (web-based) Matlab

Matlab Online is a MathWorks product that enables running Matlab applications via a full-fledged web interface.

August 4, 2014 5 Comments Read More »

Improving fwrite performance

Standard file writing performance can be improved in Matlab in surprising ways.

April 24, 2013 11 Comments Read More »

Matlab-Java memory leaks, performance

Internal fields of Java objects may leak memory - this article explains how to avoid this without sacrificing performance.

January 19, 2012 34 Comments Read More »

Types of undocumented Matlab aspects

This article lists the different types of undocumented/unsupported/hidden aspects in Matlab

November 24, 2011 No Comments Read More »

Customizing uitree nodes – part 1

This article describes how to customize specific nodes of Matlab GUI tree controls created using the undocumented uitree function

August 25, 2010 21 Comments Read More »

Undocumented XML functionality

Matlab's built-in XML-processing functions have several undocumented features that can be used by Java-savvy users

November 18, 2009 6 Comments Read More »

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.

June 4, 2009 21 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 21 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 4 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 (48 days 0 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 5 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 10 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 18 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 2 hours 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 20 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 4 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...