UI controls

Inactive Control Tooltips & Event Chaining

Inactive Matlab uicontrols cannot normally display their tooltips. This article shows how to do this with a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks.

February 24, 2010 8 Comments Read More »

Additional uicontrol tooltip hacks

Matlab's uicontrol tooltips have several limitations that can be overcome using the control's underlying Java object.

February 17, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

Continuous slider callback

Matlab slider uicontrols do not enable a continuous-motion callback by default. This article explains how this can be achieved using undocumented features.

February 8, 2010 56 Comments Read More »

Customizing listbox & editbox scrollbars

Matlab listbox and multi-line editbox uicontrols have pre-configured scrollbars. This article shows how they can be customized.

February 1, 2010 54 Comments Read More »

Rich Matlab editbox contents

The Matlab editbox uicontrol does not handle HTML contents as do other uicontrols. In this article I show how this limitation can be removed.

January 20, 2010 53 Comments Read More »

FindJObj GUI – display container hierarchy

The FindJObj utility can be used to present a GUI that displays a Matlab container's internal Java components, properties and callbacks.

January 12, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

FindJObj – find a Matlab component's underlying Java object

The FindJObj utility can be used to access and display the internal components of Matlab controls and containers. This article explains its uses and inner mechanism.

January 6, 2010 69 Comments Read More »

GUI integrated HTML panel

Simple HTML can be presented in a Java component integrated in Matlab GUI, without requiring the heavy browser control.

December 15, 2009 3 Comments Read More »

GUI integrated browser control

A fully-capable browser component is included in Matlab and can easily be incorporated in regular Matlab GUI applications. This article shows how.

December 9, 2009 67 Comments Read More »

Customizing Matlab labels

Matlab's text uicontrol is not very customizable, and does not support HTML or Tex formatting. This article shows how to display HTML labels in Matlab and some undocumented customizations

November 11, 2009 12 Comments Read More »

Nicholas (2 days 14 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thanks for the reply. I am on Windows 10. I also forgot to mention that this all works wonderfully out of the editor. It only fails once compiled. So, yes, I have tried a...
Nicholas (2 days 14 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thanks for the reply. I am on Windows 10. I also forgot to mention that this all works wonderfully out of the editor. It only fails once compiled. So, yes, I have tried a...
Yair Altman (2 days 22 hours ago): Nicholas – yes, I used it in a compiled Windows app using R2022b (no update). You didn’t specify the Matlab code location that threw the error so I can’t help...
Nicholas (3 days 18 hours ago): Hi Yair, Have you attempted your displayWebPage utility (or the LightweightHelpPanel in general) within a compiled application? It appears to fail in apps derived from both R2022b...
João Neves (6 days 22 hours ago): I am on matlab 2021a, this still works: url = struct(struct(struct(struct(hF ig).Controller).PlatformHost). CEF).URL; but the html document is empty. Is there still a way to do...
Yair Altman (9 days 21 hours ago): Perhaps the class() function could assist you. Or maybe just wrap different access methods in a try-catch so that if one method fails you could access the data using another...
Jeroen Boschma (10 days 0 hours ago): Never mind, the new UI components have an HTML panel available. Works for me…
Alexandre (10 days 1 hour ago): Hi, Is there a way to test if data dictionnatry entry are signal, simulink parameters, variables … I need to access their value, but the access method depends on the data...
Nicholas (10 days 15 hours ago): In case anyone is looking for more info on the toolbar: I ran into some problems creating a toolbar with the lightweight panel. Previously, the Browser Panel had an addToolbar...
Jeroen Boschma (13 days 22 hours ago): I do not seem to get the scrollbars (horizontal…) working in Matlab 2020b. Snippets of init-code (all based on Yair’s snippets on this site) handles.text_explorer...
Yair Altman (42 days 0 hours ago): m_map is a mapping tool, not even created by MathWorks and not part of the basic Matlab system. I have no idea why you think that the customizations to the builtin bar function...
chengji chen (42 days 7 hours ago): Hi, I have tried the method, but it didn’t work. I plot figure by m_map toolbox, the xticklabel will add to the yticklabel at the left-down corner, so I want to move down...
Yair Altman (50 days 0 hours ago): @Alexander – this is correct. Matlab stopped including sqlite4java in R2021b (it was still included in 21a). You can download the open-source sqlite4java project from...
Alexander Eder (55 days 19 hours ago): Unfortunately Matlab stopped shipping sqlite4java starting with R2021(b?)
K (62 days 6 hours ago): Is there a way to programmatically manage which figure gets placed where? Let’s say I have 5 figures docked, and I split it into 2 x 1, I want to place 3 specific figures on the...