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Matlab compilation quirks – take 2

A few hard-to-trace quirks with Matlab compiler outputs are explained.

May 31, 2017 No Comments Read More »

Quirks with compiled Matlab DLLs

Several quirks with Matlab-compiled DLLs are discussed and workarounds suggested.

February 10, 2016 No Comments Read More »

Matlab compiler bug and workaround

Both the Matlab compiler and the publish function have errors when parsing block-comments in Matlab m-code.

January 28, 2015 6 Comments Read More »

Using pure Java GUI in deployed Matlab apps

Using pure-Java GUI in deployed Matlab apps requires a special yet simple adaptation.

July 10, 2014 27 Comments Read More »

Disabling menu entries in deployed docked figures

Matlab's standard menu items can and should be removed from deployed docked figures. This article explains how.

November 14, 2012 14 Comments Read More »

Removing user preferences from deployed apps

An unsupported MathWorks Technical Solution explains how to remove private information from deployed (compiled) matlab applications.

November 7, 2012 No Comments Read More »

Speeding up compiled apps startup

The MCR_CACHE_ROOT environment variable can reportedly help to speed-up deployed Matlab executables.

August 22, 2012 32 Comments Read More »

Splash window for deployed applications

Deployed (compiled) Matlab applications take a long time to load. I present a splash window that loads immadiately, solving this problem.

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Unique computer ID

There are several alternatives for getting unique computer identifiers in Matlab

June 22, 2011 25 Comments Read More »

Docking figures in compiled applications

Figures in compiled applications cannot officially be docked since R2008a, but this can be done using a simple undocumented trick.

June 15, 2011 30 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • JCFL (20 hours 20 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 10 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 7 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.
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