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Undocumented feature

Persisting transparent colors in HG2

We can set semi- and fully-transparent colors in HG2 for multiple graphic objects, but making these settings stick is non-trivial.

June 3, 2015 2 Comments Read More »

Undocumented HG2 graphics events

Matlab's new HG2 graphics engine includes many new undocumented events that could be used in various ways.

May 27, 2015 18 Comments Read More »

General-use object copy

Matlab's dual internal serialization/deserialization functions can be used to create duplicates of any object.

May 6, 2015 15 Comments Read More »

Auto-completion widget

Matlab includes a variety of undocumented internal controls that can be used for an auto-completion component.

April 29, 2015 23 Comments Read More »

Undocumented view transformation matrix

Matlab's view function returns an undocumented output transformation matrix.

April 15, 2015 5 Comments Read More »

Plot legend title

Titles to plot legends are easy to achieve in HG1 (R2014a or earlier), but much more difficult in HG2 (R2014b or newer).

April 1, 2015 11 Comments Read More »

Using Infiniband with Matlab Parallel Computing Toolbox

Infiniband networking can significantly improve PCT performance in Matlab parallelization and distributed computing.

March 26, 2015 2 Comments Read More »

Frameless (undecorated) figure windows

Matlab figure windows can be made undecorated (borderless, title-less).

March 19, 2015 12 Comments Read More »

Transparent legend

Matlab chart legends are opaque be default but can be made semi- or fully transparent.

March 11, 2015 No Comments Read More »

Simulink Data Dictionary

Simulink contains undocumented public API for access to its data dictionary functionality.

February 11, 2015 15 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • Santiago (3 days 11 hours ago): It works perfectly. Thanks so much.
  • Yair Altman (3 days 16 hours ago): Santiago – you can get the mouse X,Y positions from the Java eventData object (getX(), getY()), convert this into a point (p=java.awt.Point(x,y)), then use the JTable...
  • Santiago (4 days 8 hours ago): Hi Yair. I’m using the MouseReleasedCallback but I need to get the indices of the selected cell. I can get them without problems with left clicks but, if I try to do it with...
  • Yair Altman (22 days 12 hours ago): Adam – perhaps there is a builtin syntax-pane control for uifigures, but I am not aware of one. Perhaps you can try to implement a uihtml panel with a GeSHi...
  • Yair Altman (22 days 12 hours ago): Marcel – 12 years and ~25 releases since I wrote this article, it is no surprise at all that some things no longer work the same way. In fact, the surprising thing is that...
  • Yair Altman (22 days 12 hours ago): See the documentation of the uitree function. The text in my article refers to the legacy (Java-based) uitree version, which is not documented, whereas it is documented and...
  • SOULEYMANE Zakaria (27 days 18 hours ago): Hello. Thank you for sharing. I would like to know if someone could help me with the syntax it takes to use uitree on “Appdesigner”. When I use the syntax you...
  • Nicholas (28 days 6 hours 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 (40 days 18 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 (40 days 22 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});
  • Adam (42 days 10 hours ago): Hi Yair, Is there any way to implement this SyntaxPane functionality in the new uifigure-based apps? Thanks!
  • Yair Altman (42 days 17 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 (43 days 1 hour 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 (45 days 19 hours ago): Dani – You can use jViewport.setViewPosition(java .awt.Point(0,0)) as I showed in earlier comments here
  • dani (46 days 14 hours ago): hi!! how i can set the horizontal scrollbar to the leftside when appearing! now it set to right side of text
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