Semi-documented function

Common javacomponent problems

The javacomponent function is very useful for placing Java components on-screen, but has a few quirks.

December 7, 2011 29 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 »

Javacomponent background color

This article explains how to align Java component background color with a Matlab color.

October 12, 2011 3 Comments Read More »

Bug and workaround in timeseries plot

Matlab's internal hgconvertunits function has a bug that affects timeseries plots. Luckily there is a simple workaround.

September 7, 2011 4 Comments Read More »

Uitable sorting

Matlab's uitables can be sortable using simple undocumented features

July 26, 2011 45 Comments Read More »

Borderless button used for plot properties

A borderless button can be used to add unobtrusive functionality to plot axes

May 11, 2011 16 Comments Read More »

An interesting uitree utility

ExploreStruct is a utility that shows how custom uitrees can be integrated in Matlab GUI

March 30, 2011 5 Comments Read More »

handle2struct, struct2handle & Matlab 8.0

This article explains how we can use a couple of undocumented functions in Matlab GUI, and what we can learn from this about Matlab's future.

December 29, 2010 11 Comments Read More »

Matlab callbacks for Java events

Events raised in Java code can be caught and handled in Matlab callback functions - this article explains how

November 30, 2010 88 Comments Read More »

Uitab customizations

This article shows several customizations that can be done to Matlab's undocumented tab-panels functionality

November 17, 2010 9 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (2 days 2 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 (2 days 2 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 (2 days 2 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 (7 days 7 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 (7 days 20 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 (20 days 8 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 (20 days 12 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});
Adam (22 days 0 hours ago): Hi Yair, Is there any way to implement this SyntaxPane functionality in the new uifigure-based apps? Thanks!
Yair Altman (22 days 7 hours ago): @Mitchell – in most cases the user wants a single string identifier for the computer, that uniquely identifies it with a distinct fingerprint that is different from any...
Mitchell (22 days 15 hours ago): Great post! I’m not very familiar with the network interfaces being referenced here, but it seems like the java-based cross-platform method concatenates all network...
Yair Altman (25 days 9 hours ago): Dani – You can use jViewport.setViewPosition(java .awt.Point(0,0)) as I showed in earlier comments here
dani (26 days 4 hours ago): hi!! how i can set the horizontal scrollbar to the leftside when appearing! now it set to right side of text
Yair Altman (35 days 1 hour ago): Dom – call drawnow *just before* you set hLine.MarkerHandle.FaceColorTy pe to 'truecoloralpha'. Also, you made a typo in your code: it’s truecoloralpha, not...
Dom (35 days 23 hours ago): Yair I have tried your code with trucoloralpha and the markers do not appear transparent in R2021b, same as for Oliver.
Yair Altman (39 days 7 hours ago): Ren – This is usually the expected behavior, which avoids unnecessary duplications of the Excel process in CPU/memory. If you want to kill the process you can always run...