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 »

JCFL (18 hours 24 minutes ago): I was trying the above trick to change the transparency of contour lines and wondering why not all the lines have changed — then I found your post. Thanks and your post saved me.
Patrick Fitzgerald (2 days 22 hours ago): Just a heads up to anyone else digging around for help related to this: if you assign BackrgoundColor to a pushbutton-style uicontrol, it seems to prevent you from...
Vasiliy (18 days 17 hours ago): Hi Yair, i’m trying to use the MonthChooserPanel class. com.mathworks.mwswing.MJUtilit ies.initJIDE; handles.jPanel = com.jidesoft.combobox.MonthCho oserPanel;...
DM (18 days 17 hours ago): Hi Yair, I’m trying to use the MonthChooserPanel class. com.mathworks.mwswing.MJUtilit ies.initJIDE; handles.jPanel = com.jidesoft.combobox.MonthCho oserPanel; [handles.hPanel,...
Yair Altman (22 days 10 hours ago): @Alex – thanks, but keep in mind that new functions will only work on the recent Matlab releases. If your code needs to work on older Matlab releases, you could revert to...
Alex Churchill (22 days 10 hours ago): I was looking up how to do this exact task today. I was about to hold my nose and use the internal controllib function, when I happened to chance across a slightly newer...
Sebastian Hölz (28 days 16 hours ago): I have not investigated this in detail, but I think one way to go in new versions of Matlab (>2019b) might be to use listeners to suitable figure properties, e.g. fig =...
Prathep (28 days 19 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thanks for your introduction on Matlab Toostrip. Is there any way to add Matlab toolstrip for uifigures as you have done already for figure?
Josh (35 days 1 hour ago): Dear Yair, Small typo; you wrote >>Move lines up or down – CTRL + ALT + UP or DOWN allows you to move selected lines up or down but it’s actually ALT+SHIFT then UP/DOWN...
Yair Altman (41 days 20 hours ago): You can try to increase the Java heap memory size in the Matlab preferences (General => Java Heap Memory). Any changes to the settings will only take effect after restarting...
Thomas (41 days 22 hours ago): Hello, thanks for sharing! I currently receive the following memory error message when using savezip with a big object (Matlab R2020b, Windows 10). Error using...
Yair Altman (45 days 5 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (45 days 8 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (46 days 12 hours ago): Hello Mr. Altman, how can I disable menu items in the context menu? E.g. when I am trying to do this: menuItems = jmenu.getSubElements; menuItem1 = menuItems(1);...
Yair Altman (47 days 5 hours ago): Thanks for the note Eric – you forgot the crucial call to jTable.setLabelTable(labelTabl e) – I added it into your code snippet above.