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 71 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 »

Cookie (6 days 13 hours ago): If you have the parallel toolbox there is a method byteArray = distcompserialize64(myData) which appears to function the same as getByteStreamFromArray()> but does not seem to...
Enrico Segre (8 days 2 hours ago): Actually, here you’re talking, AFAIU, only of callbacks fired by events generated in Matlab graphic windows. I argue that they a little special by themselves, and...
Nina797 (18 days 21 hours ago): Hey Yair, I really appreciate your fantastic blog! I had no idea these amazing features were out there, and many of them are exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks again!
Yair Altman (62 days 20 hours ago): see the details in my reply above
Gehan (62 days 20 hours ago): The link at https://www.mathworks.com/matl abcentral/fileexchange/30672-m xgetpropertyptr no longer contain the files mxGetPropertyPtr.c mxGetPropertyPtr.h I downloaded the folder....
Yair Altman (62 days 20 hours ago): I believe that you are referring to James Tursa’s submission – you can get it here: https://www.mathworks.com/matl abcentral/fileexchange/30672-m xgetpropertyptr....
Gehan Abouelseoud (62 days 20 hours ago): These files are no longer available what can I do? mxGetPropertyPtr.c mxGetPropertyPtr.h
Yair Altman (108 days 1 hour ago): @Bob – you are mistaken: s=warning(...) returns the warnings state as it was before the state was modified, so my code is correct. There is no need for a separate call to...
Bob Pownalll (109 days 19 hours ago): Thanks! I was trying to figure out how to do exactly this (i.e. Use a try / catch block with something that generated a warning, not an error) and you pointed me to a solution!...
Gianmarco (131 days 1 hour ago): Hi Yair, what about if I would like to set a specific background and font color to the table row header?
Antonio (151 days 1 hour ago): Note Intel’s MKL implementations of BLAS/LAPACK are already multi-threaded, so it is likely that you won’t achieve a vast improvement (the overall performance could even...
Yair Altman (194 days 23 hours ago): which Matlab version are you using?
Matlab-user (195 days 0 hours ago): I am trying to do it using uipushtool since uisplittool is not supported anymore. I am able to insert the image icon in the toolbar, but not sure how to get the dropdown (trying...
Yair Altman (219 days 19 hours ago): @Peter – I’m happy to hear that you found my work useful. Feel free to use my algorithm and code for any non-commercial research usage. I just ask that you add...
Niko (227 days 18 hours ago): jTabGroup = getappdata(handle(hTabGroup),' JTabbedPane'); doesn’t work anymore in R2023b 🙁 when i do jTabGroup = findjobj(hTabGroup,'class','MJ TabbedPane'); I get an object of...