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Adding dynamic properties to graphic handles

It is easy and very useful to attach dynamic properties to Matlab graphics objects in run-time.

September 16, 2015 4 Comments Read More »

Customizing Matlab uipanels

Matlab uipanel controls can be customized using Java in ways that are impossible with plain Matlab.

February 25, 2015 14 Comments Read More »

Unorthodox checkbox usage

There are various ways to display interactive split-panes in Matlab GUI. Uiextras flex-panels override a checkbox control's CData to display a divider.

January 14, 2015 One Comment Read More »

Customizing combobox popups

Matlab combobox (dropdown) popups can be customized in a variety of ways.

September 24, 2014 8 Comments Read More »

Customizing listbox/combobox items

Matlab listboxes can be customized using custom Java cell-renderers.

September 17, 2014 2 Comments Read More »

CheckboxList

Matlab listboxes can be enhanced with checkboxes next to each item.

September 10, 2014 24 Comments Read More »

Undocumented button highlighting

Matlab button uicontrols can easily be highlighted by simply setting their Value property.

February 5, 2014 One Comment Read More »

Listbox layout customization

Matlab's listbox layout can be modified to display multiple item columns and different inter-cell margins.

November 13, 2013 14 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 »

Editbox data input validation

Undocumented features of Matlab editbox uicontrols enable immediate user-input data validation

October 2, 2013 7 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • Nicholas (14 hours 50 minutes 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 (13 days 3 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 (13 days 6 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});
  • Yair Altman (15 days 1 hour 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 (15 days 10 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 (18 days 4 hours ago): Dani – You can use jViewport.setViewPosition(java .awt.Point(0,0)) as I showed in earlier comments here
  • dani (18 days 23 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 (27 days 20 hours 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 (28 days 18 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 (32 days 2 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...
  • Yair Altman (32 days 15 hours ago): When you use plot() without hold(‘on’), each new plot() clears the axes and draws a new line, so your second plot() of p2 caused the first plot() line (p1) to be...
  • Cesim Dumlu (38 days 23 hours ago): Hello. I am trying to do a gradient plot for multiple functions to be displayed on the same axes and each one is colorcoded by respective colordata, using the same scaling. The...
  • Yair Altman (47 days 2 hours ago): @Veronica – you are using the new version of uitree, which uses HTML-based uifigures, and my post was about the Java-based uitree which uses legacy Matlab figures. For...
  • Veronica Taurino (47 days 2 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
  • Veronica Taurino (47 days 3 hours ago): Hello, I am just trying to change the uitree node name as you suggested: txt1 = 'abra'; txt2 = 'kadabra'; node.setName([txt1,txt2]); >> "Unrecognized method, property, or...
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