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 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 »

SKM (17 days 13 hours ago): It is 10 years since the original article, but I would like to bring to attention that such issues have not yet been resolved. For example, programmatically opening and closing files in...
Yair Altman (47 days 23 hours ago): @Ken – I cannot reproduce your report, it works as expected for me even on R2022b
Yair Altman (48 days 2 hours ago): try to use the waitfor function
Danila Berezin (52 days 13 hours ago): Hi I have a similar issue. Did you find a workaround for this?
Ken Johnson (61 days 2 hours ago): Why does the second catch block in this code example not work? (It works if you restart MATLAB and then omit the first try-catch block.) try a = [0,0;0,0]\[1;1]; catch...
Santiago (65 days 17 hours ago): It works perfectly. Thanks so much.
Yair Altman (65 days 22 hours ago): Santiago – you can get the mouse X,Y positions from the Java eventData object (getX(), getY()), convert this into a point (p=java.awt.Point(x,y)), then use the JTable...
Santiago (66 days 14 hours ago): Hi Yair. I’m using the MouseReleasedCallback but I need to get the indices of the selected cell. I can get them without problems with left clicks but, if I try to do it with...
Yair Altman (84 days 18 hours ago): Adam – perhaps there is a builtin syntax-pane control for uifigures, but I am not aware of one. Perhaps you can try to implement a uihtml panel with a GeSHi...
Yair Altman (84 days 18 hours ago): Marcel – 12 years and ~25 releases since I wrote this article, it is no surprise at all that some things no longer work the same way. In fact, the surprising thing is that...
Yair Altman (84 days 18 hours ago): See the documentation of the uitree function. The text in my article refers to the legacy (Java-based) uitree version, which is not documented, whereas it is documented and...
SOULEYMANE Zakaria (90 days 0 hours ago): Hello. Thank you for sharing. I would like to know if someone could help me with the syntax it takes to use uitree on “Appdesigner”. When I use the syntax you...
Nicholas (90 days 12 hours ago): Hello Yair, Have you, or anyone else, had an opportunity to try this demo in R2022a/b? I cannot get the HTMLBrowserPanel object to update with html text (nor with an html file, if...
Marcel (103 days 0 hours ago): Hi, I am trying to set the legend to Static, but this command seems not to work in R2022a anymore: set(gca,’LegendColorbarL isteners’,[]); Any ideas? THANKS / marcel
Gres (103 days 4 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});