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 90 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 »

Donato Coppola (8 hours 11 minutes 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 (18 days 20 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 (37 days 2 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 (44 days 20 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 (45 days 1 hour 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 (67 days 2 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
Eric Delgado (96 days 5 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 (96 days 5 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 (113 days 2 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (114 days 0 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 (114 days 18 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 (117 days 13 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 (127 days 3 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 (127 days 14 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...
Elsa Smith (128 days 5 hours ago): I recently used java.awt.Robot to perform GUI testing on MATLAB and found it to be an extremely easy and useful way to control mouse movements.