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Customizing editboxes

Matlab's editbox can be customized in many useful manners

September 25, 2013 9 Comments Read More »

Rich-contents log panel

Matlab listboxes and editboxes can be used to display rich-contents HTML-formatted strings, which is ideal for log panels.

September 18, 2013 15 Comments Read More »

JTattoo look-and-feel demo

A demo GUI that shows the effects of using different look-and-feels, including the JTatoo library, is presented.

March 20, 2013 13 Comments Read More »

Multi-line uitable column headers

Matlab uitables can present long column headers in multiple lines, for improved readability.

June 27, 2012 21 Comments Read More »

Uitable cell colors

A few Java-based customizations can transform a plain-looking data table into a lively colored one.

October 26, 2011 123 Comments Read More »

Tri-state checkbox

Matlab checkboxes can easily be made to support tri-state functionality.

October 19, 2011 5 Comments Read More »

uisplittool & uitogglesplittool

Matlab's undocumented uisplittool and uitogglesplittool are powerful controls that can easily be added to Matlab toolbars - this article explains how

December 8, 2010 9 Comments Read More »

Panel-level uicontrols

Matlab's uipanel contains a hidden handle to the title label, which can be modified into a checkbox or radio-button control

November 24, 2010 17 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 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
  • Nicholas (16 hours 39 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 4 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 8 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});
  • Yair Altman (15 days 3 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 (15 days 12 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 5 hours ago): Dani – You can use jViewport.setViewPosition(java .awt.Point(0,0)) as I showed in earlier comments here
  • dani (19 days 1 hour 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 21 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 20 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 3 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 17 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 (39 days 1 hour 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 4 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 4 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
  • Veronica Taurino (47 days 4 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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