Semi-documented feature

Matlab toolstrip – part 1

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

September 3, 2018 6 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 13 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 33 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 »

Amin zaami (1 day 21 hours ago): Use below code, for newer version of MATLAB after 2019 to access Toolstrip: title = ‘sample’; app = matlab.ui.internal.desktop.Too lGroup(title); tabgroup =...
Donato Coppola (76 days 9 hours ago): Hi Yair! I have a problem with the treetable. I disabled the editing of the table, but if Itry to compile the app, this property is ignored and the table became editable. Is...
Amin zaami (94 days 21 hours ago): I have the same problem as Nicholas, The function works fine on R2022, but when compiled it fails (I used com.mathworks.mlwidgets.help.L ightweightHelpPanel), I tried compiling...
Rolf (113 days 4 hours ago): Disclosure: This comes from the developer/vendor of the Code Checker for MATLAB. Have a look at the Code Checker for MATLAB by MonkeyProof Solutions which has many such (configurable)...
Yair Altman (120 days 21 hours ago): In theory you could use the data: URI scheme (e.g. .load('data:text/html,<html ><body>Hello world</body></html>')), but for some reason it doesn’t work well in...
Sebastian (121 days 3 hours ago): Thanks for your update to the now unsupported `HTMLBrowserPanel`. I tried to replace it with the `LightweightHelpPanel` but the application I am working on is showing generated...
Leuze (143 days 4 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
Eric Delgado (172 days 6 hours ago): Hey Yair, I think your site is the right place to share that I wrote ccTools, a lib that allows a lot of customizations of Matlab built-in web components (such as uifigure,...
Eric Delgado (172 days 6 hours ago): Hey guys, first of all, thanks to @Yair, your site saved me a lot of times! 🙂 That’s why I am sharing that I wrote m2mlapp (*.m => *.mlapp) file conversion, that...
François (189 days 4 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (190 days 2 hours ago): I am not familiar with a universal catch-all tab-completion mechanism for all functions, and it also doesn’t make much sense to me, because different functions use...
Arye (190 days 20 hours ago): hi, is there a universal functionSignature.json file that will allow my to get the function hints when opening brackets of my funcs? something that automaticly recognize my function...
Sunham (193 days 15 hours ago): This is an old article, but the issue persists even in 2023. 2023a: z = mat2cell(1:1e6,1,repmat(1,1,1e 6)); f = @() cellfun(‘isempty’, z); g = @() cellfun(@isempty,z);...
Yair Altman (203 days 5 hours ago): Robot only runs when you tell it to run a command such as keyPress. If you don’t tell it to run a command, it uses no CPU, so there’s no need to remove the Robot...
Eric (203 days 16 hours ago): Hey @Kevin, can you share your code about create group of figures in the AppContainer? The container of multiples uifigures could be an amazing improvement over AppDesigner and its...