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Undocumented feature

IP address input control

A built-in JIDE control can be used in Matlab GUI for IP-address entry/display.

January 31, 2018 3 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 »

Toolbar button labels

GUI toolbar button labels can easily be set and customized using underlying Java components.

January 8, 2018 No Comments Read More »

Using SQLite in Matlab

SQLite databases can be accessed in a variety of different ways in Matlab.

December 27, 2017 3 Comments Read More »

PlotEdit context-menu customization

A combination of Matlab and Java Robot commands to automate a certain animation can be used when we cannot access underlying GUI/graphics code.

December 13, 2017 No Comments Read More »

Builtin PopupPanel widget

We can use a built-in Matlab popup-panel widget control to display lightweight popups that are attached to a figure window.

December 6, 2017 One Comment Read More »

Customizing uifigures part 3

As I have repeatedly posted in recent years, Matlab is advancing towards web-based GUI. The basic underlying technology is more-or-less stable: an HTML/Javascript webpage that is created-on-the-fly and rendered in

November 27, 2017 5 Comments Read More »

The HotLinks feature

feature('HotLinks') can be used to temporarily disable hyperlinks and other markups in the Matlab console.

October 24, 2017 One Comment Read More »

Faster csvwrite/dlmwrite

The speed of the builtin csvwrite, dlmwrite functions can be improved dramatically.

October 3, 2017 5 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 »
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Recent Comments
  • Marcel (1 day 12 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 (1 day 16 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});
  • Yair Altman (3 days 10 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 (3 days 19 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 (6 days 13 hours ago): Dani – You can use jViewport.setViewPosition(java .awt.Point(0,0)) as I showed in earlier comments here
  • dani (7 days 8 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 (16 days 5 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 (17 days 3 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 (20 days 11 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 (21 days 1 hour 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 (27 days 8 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 (35 days 11 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 (35 days 11 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
  • Veronica Taurino (35 days 12 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...
  • Yair Altman (38 days 11 hours ago): The version of JGraph that you downloaded uses a newer version of Java (11) than the one that Matlab supports (8). You need to either (1) find an earlier version of JGraph that...
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