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Speeding-up builtin Matlab functions – part 3

Built-in Matlab functions can often be profiled and optimized for improved run-time performance. This article shows a typical example.

April 6, 2020 4 Comments Read More »

Improving graphics interactivity

Matlab R2018b added default axes mouse interactivity at the expense of performance. Luckily, we can speed-up the default axes.

April 22, 2019 One Comment Read More »

Undocumented plot marker types

Undocumented plot marker styles can easily be accesses using a hidden plot-line property.

March 13, 2019 One Comment Read More »

Speeding-up builtin Matlab functions – part 2

Built-in Matlab functions can often be profiled and optimized for improved run-time performance. This article shows a typical example.

May 6, 2018 8 Comments Read More »

Speeding-up builtin Matlab functions – part 1

Built-in Matlab functions can often be profiled and optimized for improved run-time performance. This article shows a typical example.

April 29, 2018 7 Comments Read More »

Customizing axes tick labels

Multiple customizations can be applied to tick labels.

January 24, 2018 5 Comments Read More »

Customizing histogram plots

Basic bar charts and histogram plots can be customized in important aspects.

January 17, 2018 No Comments Read More »

Customizing contour plots part 2

Matlab contour labels' color and font can easily be customized.

November 12, 2017 9 Comments Read More »

Runtime code instrumentation

Conditional breakpoints can be used to instrument code with user-specified code.

September 28, 2017 3 Comments Read More »

Sending HTML emails from Matlab

Matlab's sendmail only sends simple text messages by default; a simple hack can cause it to send HTML-formatted messages.

August 3, 2017 2 Comments Read More »
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  • Yair Altman (1 hour 53 minutes ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
  • Manzn (4 hours 40 minutes ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
  • Yerlan (1 day 9 hours ago): Hello Mr. Altman, how can I disable menu items in the context menu? E.g. when I am trying to do this: menuItems = jmenu.getSubElements; menuItem1 = menuItems(1);...
  • Yair Altman (2 days 1 hour ago): Thanks for the note Eric – you forgot the crucial call to jTable.setLabelTable(labelTabl e) – I added it into your code snippet above.
  • Erik (3 days 12 hours ago): Thank you for this — I don’t know if this has been mentioned anywhere else before, but it could be useful to mention how to add custom labels to a jslider. I did the...
  • turhv (16 days 7 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
  • Jianfei (49 days 11 hours ago): I have tried the MathWorks CheckBoxList in Matlab 2015b. For whatever the reason, I can’t change the font properties. I can change the font color, but changing font properties...
  • Donato Coppola (55 days 6 hours ago): Hi Yair, I have a problem with the double format. When I run the treeTable function, the numbers in double format cells are displayed with comma as decimal separator. How can...
  • Kim (60 days 20 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
  • Adil (62 days 22 hours ago): Thank you for the blog, it was useful for me. I have a file named App_project.mlapp.zip and when I extract it through Winzip it gives all the files exactly as you described above. I...
  • Mr Ashley Trowell (65 days 7 hours ago): Thank you so much for this analysis. Also, I find it somewhat horrifying. The take away seems to be to use && / || and NOT and / or. Thanks a bunch! ~Ashley
  • Matt (70 days 9 hours ago): Late reply I know, but you can call custom shortcuts with alt-#. Hold down Alt to see what number is assigned to the shortcuts you’ve created. Now if there was a way to create a...
  • James (78 days 4 hours ago): Is there a way to change the location of the window? They pop up at random locations and the user has to chase them down.
  • Robin (78 days 12 hours ago): Hi Yair, This has been a great help. With the removal of com.mathworks sometime in the future (as announced in R2020b), is there an alternative? For me, just getting a preference...
  • Eric Dziekonski (100 days 9 hours ago): This is fantastic! Thanks everyone! To get access to CEF on 2019b, I had to take the advise of Jeffery Devereux and Xiangrui Li. warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % suppress...
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