Semi-documented function

Sliders in Matlab GUI – part 2

Matlab contains a variety of ways to define/display slider controls in GUI windows.

July 5, 2018 9 Comments Read More »

String/char compatibility

Backward compatibility of strings in function inputs is a challenge, that can be assisted with an undocumented builtin function.

June 28, 2018 18 Comments Read More »

Password & spinner controls in Matlab GUI

Password fields and spinner controls can easily be embedded in Matlab GUIs.

December 14, 2016 4 Comments Read More »

Viewing saved profiling results

We can easily use saved profiling results to analyze, view and compare profiling results of multiple runs.

May 18, 2016 No Comments Read More »

Editable combo-box

Matlab's popup menu (combo-box) control is quite limited in its abilities. This article explains how we can work around these limitations.

October 9, 2013 20 Comments Read More »

Function definition meta-info

There are multiple ways to retrieve meta-info about functions in Matlab.

September 4, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

treeTable

A description of a sortable, groupable tree-table control that can be used in Matlab is provided.

August 6, 2013 87 Comments Read More »

Math libraries version info & upgrade

Matlab exposes undocumented info about its internal math libraries; these libraries can be upgraded manually.

July 17, 2013 7 Comments Read More »

Handle Graphics Behavior

HG behaviors are an important aspect of Matlab graphics that enable custom control of handle functionality.

March 6, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Customizing menu items part 1

Matlab menus can be customized in a variety of undocumented manners - first article of a series.

April 25, 2012 6 Comments Read More »

matse (2 days 0 hours ago): Is there a possibility to rotate the controllib.widget.Slider? So to have it vertical? Thanks!
Yair Altman (7 days 2 hours ago): Perhaps it’s because the table is empty, I don’t know. In any case, I think you can ignore this error, I don’t think that it affects the functionality.
Yeah (7 days 5 hours ago): I have the “Exception in thread “AWT-EventQueue-0″ java.lang.NullPointerException ” proplem.. and I add these lines in my function. the java warning message...
Yair Altman (17 days 8 hours ago): I assume that you refer to the html tags example for uitable at the bottom of the article. If you click a uitable cell, you enter editor mode, and this may behave in an...
Ajay Krishna (17 days 12 hours ago): Hello Yair, i tried replicating the example with all the cells center aligned. The problem is when i click the 1st cell the text of neighbouring cell changes to white or it...
Vinicius (18 days 20 hours ago): I would just like to thank you for your fantastic work. I was looking for ages for a SIMPLE way to do this!
todd welti (28 days 20 hours ago): Is there any way to prevent Matlab opening axis props window when you quickly turn off/on a plot line from the plot browser? I find that most annoying.
Yair Altman (30 days 20 hours ago): Perhaps you tried to access the class before you used javaaddpath to add the JAR file to the classpath. If Matlab fails to find a class, then it will not be able to access it...
mukesh Muthu (30 days 20 hours ago): i get the following error , im using matlab 2016b-64bit if i use graph = com.mxgraph.view.mxGraph Undefined variable "com" or class "com.mxgraph.view.mxGraph". if i use graph =...
Sebastian Hölz (35 days 16 hours ago): OK, Been working on this again and found a solution which works in 2020a and 2020b. Below a working example which resets the KeyPressFcn for all ui-modes after activating...
JCFL (38 days 5 hours 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 (40 days 9 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 (56 days 4 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 (56 days 4 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 (59 days 20 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...