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 7 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 »

Yair Altman (13 days 6 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 (13 days 6 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
Veronica Taurino (13 days 7 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 (16 days 7 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...
mrv (16 days 11 hours ago): hello, I used MATLAB 2019b update9, I have add jgraphx.jar to javaclassapth, and restart matlab, but still got errors below: Warning: A Java exception occurred trying to load the...
xuejie wu (40 days 7 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
Yair Altman (51 days 23 hours ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
Sagar Chawla (51 days 23 hours ago): I want to know how to change the x-axis to the z-axis. I mean the position. Like if there is a 3d animated graph then how to change position of the axis. X-axis in place of...
Ren (52 days 0 hours ago): I noticed that xlsread will create a hidden and never-dying special server that always has priority when actxGetRunningServer is called. So this cause a problem that no matter how many...
Ben Abbott (55 days 14 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()
Yair Altman (55 days 18 hours ago): @Ben – it looks perfectly ok (with color gradient and all) on my R2022a… Perhaps you missed some of the steps (e.g. setting the ColorBinding to 'interpolated') or...
Ben Abbott (55 days 18 hours ago): The graded color is not working for me using R2021a. The plot “HG2 plot line color, transparency gradient” looks exactly like “Transparent HG2 plot...
Yair Altman (78 days 21 hours ago): Oliver – you probably forgot to update hMarkers.FaceColorType to ‘truecoloralpha‘: x=1:10; y=10*x; figure; hLine = plot(x,y,'o-'); drawnow...
Oliver (78 days 21 hours ago): This seems to have been disabled in the most recent version of Matlab (R2021b). When I use this method the hMarker.FaceColorData does change, but the markers are not made...
Yair Altman (97 days 19 hours ago): @Tim – the new uidatepicker() function only works with web-based figures (created using the uifigure() function or App Designer); it is not available on the legacy...