@Peter – Thanks for sharing

function mtree = mapStruct(s)

    hFig1 = figure('pos',[32,32,512,960]);
    hFig1.ToolBar = 'none';
    hFig1.MenuBar = 'none';
    hFig1.Name = 'Struct Explorer';
    hFig1.NumberTitle = 'off';

    root = uitreenode('v0','root','root',[],false);
    mtree = uitree('v0','Root',root,'Parent',hFig1);

    function structTraverse(s,node)
        f = fieldnames(s);
        %explore each field in the input struct s
        for kField = 1 : length(f)
            structField = s.(f{kField}); %structField = getfield(s,f{kField});
            
            %if struct field is a cell array of structs, convert to struct array IFF structs are identical
            if iscell(structField)
                if all(cellfun(@isstruct,structField))
                    try
                        structField = [structField{:}];
                    catch
                        %add some sort of exception handling
                    end
                end
            end
            
            %if the structure field is also a struct explore each field
            if isstruct(structField) %strcmp(structFieldClass,'struct')
                %determine depth of struct field & enumerate if depth > 1
                structDepth = length(structField);
                if structDepth > 1
                    newNode = uitreenode('v0',f{kField},f{kField},[],false);
                    node.add(newNode);
                    %if the depth of the structure field is greater than 1
                    %add a blank parent node then add each layer/depth level as a node in the tree
                    for kLayer = 1:structDepth
                        nodeLayerName = sprintf('%s(%d)',f{kField},kLayer);
                        nextNode = uitreenode('v0', nodeLayerName,nodeLayerName,[],false);
                        newNode.add(nextNode);
                        structTraverse(structField(kLayer),nextNode)
                    end
                else
                    %if the depth of the structure field is 1 add it as a node
                    nextNode = uitreenode('v0',f{kField},f{kField},[],false);
                    node.add(nextNode);
                    structTraverse(structField,nextNode)
                end
            else
                %make a node for the variable/attribute and display information about the variable
                newNode = uitreenode('v0',f{kField},f{kField},[],false);
                [nRow,nCol] = size(structField);
                structFieldClass = class(structField);
                if isempty(structField)
                    displayString = 'empty';
                elseif nRow==1 && ischar(structField)
                    displayString = structField;
                elseif nRow==1 && nCol==1 && any(strcmp(structFieldClass,{'single','double','logical'}))
                    displayString = sprintf('%f',structField);
                else
                    displayString = sprintf('%dx%d %s',nRow,nCol,structFieldClass);
                end
                nextNode = uitreenode('v0',displayString,displayString,[],true);
                newNode.add(nextNode);
                node.add(newNode);
            end
        end
    end
    
    structTraverse(s,root)
    mtree.reloadNode(root)
    mtree.Position(3) = 512;

end

MathWorks removed the UserData property (and some other generic properties such as ApplicationData) from Java components a few releases ago. In general, code that relies on undocumented features cannot be expected to work forever, it may indeed break in some future release.

You will need to contact the utility’s creator to adapt it for new Matlab releases, or modify the relevant utility yourself, or hire a consultant to help you.

First your blog is really useful and helpful.
I’m working on a GUI that contain a uitree, now I wanted to export that uitree to enable user to save it to an external variable.
but, there is known problem that the java class is not serializable.
Now I’m try to use that uitree utility in order to convert a struct to a uitree, but the utility is not working. (I’m working with R2015a release)
It getting me an error message:
“Error using set
The name ‘UserData’ is not an accessible property for an instance of class
‘com.mathworks.mwswing.MJScrollPane’.

Error in explorestruct (line 37)
set(tmp, ‘UserData’, cell_Data);”

It looks like there is no ‘UserData’ field for MJScrollPane, do you know why this field is unavailable and how to solve it?

I am not really surprised that uitable , uitree are the most-popular search terms. IMHO, these features should have been officially implemented and documented in a MATLAB release for a while since they are really helpful.