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Undocumented feature

Figure keypress modifiers

The figure's CurrentModifier property provides a simple and consistent way to retrieve keypress modifiers: alt-, control- and shift-clicks.

November 4, 2015 6 Comments Read More »

Enabling user callbacks during zoom/pan

Matlab zoom, pan and rotate3d modes hijack the user's figure callbacks, but this can be overridden.

October 28, 2015 14 Comments Read More »

Font selection components

Several built-in components enable programmatic font selection in Matlab GUI - this article explains how.

October 7, 2015 3 Comments Read More »

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 »

Solving an mput (FTP) hang problem

Matlab may hang when using passive FTP commands such as mput and dir. A simple workaround is available to fix this.

August 19, 2015 3 Comments Read More »

Accessing internal Java class members

Java inner classes and enumerations can be used in Matlab with a bit of tweaking.

August 12, 2015 4 Comments Read More »

Static Java classpath hacks

Several hacks that facilitate using the static Java classpath in Matlab are explained.

July 29, 2015 7 Comments Read More »

Using linkaxes vs. linkprop

linkaxes has a built-in limitation, so using linkprop may sometimes be beneficial.

July 22, 2015 8 Comments Read More »

Capturing print events

Matlab print events can be trapped by users to enable easy printout customization.

July 8, 2015 3 Comments Read More »

Sliders in Matlab GUI

Professional-looking slider controls can easily be integrated in Matlab GUI.

June 10, 2015 59 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • Marcel (2 days 5 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 (2 days 8 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});
  • Yair Altman (4 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 (4 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 (7 days 6 hours ago): Dani – You can use jViewport.setViewPosition(java .awt.Point(0,0)) as I showed in earlier comments here
  • dani (8 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 (16 days 22 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 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 (21 days 4 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 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 (28 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 (36 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 (36 days 4 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
  • Veronica Taurino (36 days 5 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 (39 days 4 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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