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Matlab toolstrip – part 1

Matlab contains extensive toolstrip (ribbon) functionality that can be integrated in user programs (GUI).

September 3, 2018 5 Comments Read More »

Spicing up the Matlab Editor

Matlab's Editor and Workspace can be enhanced quite significantly using an open-source utility.

March 30, 2018 One Comment Read More »

The HotLinks feature

feature('HotLinks') can be used to temporarily disable hyperlinks and other markups in the Matlab console.

October 24, 2017 One Comment Read More »

User-defined tab completions – take 2

Matlab has changed the mechanism that enables user-defined tab-completion of function inputs.

July 12, 2017 9 Comments Read More »

Handling red Java console errors

Red Java errors are sometimes displayed in the Matlab console. They can be removed or avoided in a variety of means.

June 29, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 2

Non-standard shortcut controls and customizations can easily be added to the Matlab desktop.

December 30, 2015 5 Comments Read More »

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 1

Matlab Desktop shortcuts can be programmatically accessed and customized.

December 23, 2015 7 Comments Read More »

Another couple of Matlab bugs and workarounds

A couple of internal Matlab bugs and their workarounds.

November 26, 2014 32 Comments Read More »

Online (web-based) Matlab

Matlab Online is a MathWorks product that enables running Matlab applications via a full-fledged web interface.

August 4, 2014 5 Comments Read More »

Class object tab completion & improper field names

Tab completions and property access can be customized for user-created Matlab classes.

July 17, 2014 15 Comments Read More »

Patrick Fitzgerald (1 day 17 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 (17 days 13 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 (17 days 13 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 (21 days 5 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 (21 days 6 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 (27 days 12 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 (27 days 15 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 (33 days 21 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 (40 days 16 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 (40 days 17 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 (44 days 1 hour ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (44 days 3 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (45 days 8 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 (46 days 0 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.
Erik (47 days 12 hours ago): Thank you for this — I don’t know if this has been mentioned anywhere else before, but it could be useful to mention how to add custom labels to a jslider. I did the...