COM

uiinspect

uiinspect is a Matlab utility that displays detailed information about an object's methods, properties and callbacks in a single GUI window.

January 23, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Fixing Matlab's actxserver

Matlab's COM (ActiveX) server behavior can be fixed in a couple of useful manners.

December 19, 2012 6 Comments Read More »

xlswrite for Mac, Linux

Several Matlab utilities enable reading/writing spreadsheet data (including XLS files) in Macs, Linux.

August 2, 2012 9 Comments Read More »

Controlling callback re-entrancy

Callback reentrancy is a major problem for frequently-fired events. Luckily, it can easily be solved.

August 10, 2011 17 Comments Read More »

Running VB code in Matlab

Matlab does not natively enable running VB code, but a nice trick enables us to do just that

July 20, 2011 14 Comments Read More »

COM/ActiveX tips & tricks

This article describes several little-known tips useful for COM / ActiveX programming in Matlab

July 28, 2010 6 Comments Read More »

JCFL (20 hours 4 minutes ago): I was trying the above trick to change the transparency of contour lines and wondering why not all the lines have changed — then I found your post. Thanks and your post saved me.
Patrick Fitzgerald (2 days 23 hours ago): Just a heads up to anyone else digging around for help related to this: if you assign BackrgoundColor to a pushbutton-style uicontrol, it seems to prevent you from...
Vasiliy (18 days 19 hours ago): Hi Yair, i’m trying to use the MonthChooserPanel class. com.mathworks.mwswing.MJUtilit ies.initJIDE; handles.jPanel = com.jidesoft.combobox.MonthCho oserPanel;...
DM (18 days 19 hours ago): Hi Yair, I’m trying to use the MonthChooserPanel class. com.mathworks.mwswing.MJUtilit ies.initJIDE; handles.jPanel = com.jidesoft.combobox.MonthCho oserPanel; [handles.hPanel,...
Yair Altman (22 days 11 hours ago): @Alex – thanks, but keep in mind that new functions will only work on the recent Matlab releases. If your code needs to work on older Matlab releases, you could revert to...
Alex Churchill (22 days 12 hours ago): I was looking up how to do this exact task today. I was about to hold my nose and use the internal controllib function, when I happened to chance across a slightly newer...
Sebastian Hölz (28 days 18 hours ago): I have not investigated this in detail, but I think one way to go in new versions of Matlab (>2019b) might be to use listeners to suitable figure properties, e.g. fig =...
Prathep (28 days 21 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thanks for your introduction on Matlab Toostrip. Is there any way to add Matlab toolstrip for uifigures as you have done already for figure?
Josh (35 days 3 hours ago): Dear Yair, Small typo; you wrote >>Move lines up or down – CTRL + ALT + UP or DOWN allows you to move selected lines up or down but it’s actually ALT+SHIFT then UP/DOWN...
Yair Altman (41 days 22 hours ago): You can try to increase the Java heap memory size in the Matlab preferences (General => Java Heap Memory). Any changes to the settings will only take effect after restarting...
Thomas (41 days 23 hours ago): Hello, thanks for sharing! I currently receive the following memory error message when using savezip with a big object (Matlab R2020b, Windows 10). Error using...
Yair Altman (45 days 7 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (45 days 9 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (46 days 14 hours ago): Hello Mr. Altman, how can I disable menu items in the context menu? E.g. when I am trying to do this: menuItems = jmenu.getSubElements; menuItem1 = menuItems(1);...
Yair Altman (47 days 6 hours ago): Thanks for the note Eric – you forgot the crucial call to jTable.setLabelTable(labelTabl e) – I added it into your code snippet above.