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Uitab colors, icons and images

Matlab's semi-documented tab panels can be customized using some undocumented hacks

November 10, 2010 42 Comments Read More »

The hgfeval function

The semi-documented hgfeval function can be useful for callback chaining - this article explains how

October 27, 2010 2 Comments Read More »

Customizing uitree nodes – part 2

This article shows how Matlab GUI tree nodes can be customized with checkboxes and similar controls

September 1, 2010 61 Comments Read More »

Customizing uitree

This article describes how to customize Matlab GUI tree controls created using the undocumented uitree function

August 18, 2010 44 Comments Read More »

uitree

This article describes the undocumented Matlab uitree function, which displays data in a GUI tree component

August 11, 2010 80 Comments Read More »

The javacomponent function

Matlab's built-in javacomponent function can be used to display Java components in Matlab application - this article details its usages and limitations

August 4, 2010 68 Comments Read More »

Matlab DDE support

Windows DDE is an unsupported and undocumented feature of Matlab, that can be used to improve the work-flow in the Windows environment

July 21, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

Tab panels – uitab and relatives

This article describes several undocumented Matlab functions that support tab-panels

June 23, 2010 116 Comments Read More »

Matlab layout managers: uicontainer and relatives

Matlab contains a few undocumented GUI layout managers, which greatly facilitate handling GUI components in dynamically-changing figures.

June 9, 2010 25 Comments Read More »

Matlab and the Event Dispatch Thread (EDT)

The Java Swing Event Dispatch Thread (EDT) is very important for Matlab GUI timings. This article explains the potential pitfalls and their avoidance using undocumented Matlab functionality.

March 10, 2010 40 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • 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 8 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...
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