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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 No Comments 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 »

Jianfei (3 days 3 hours ago): I have tried the MathWorks CheckBoxList in Matlab 2015b. For whatever the reason, I can’t change the font properties. I can change the font color, but changing font properties...
Donato Coppola (8 days 23 hours ago): Hi Yair, I have a problem with the double format. When I run the treeTable function, the numbers in double format cells are displayed with comma as decimal separator. How can...
Kim (14 days 13 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (16 days 14 hours ago): Thank you for the blog, it was useful for me. I have a file named App_project.mlapp.zip and when I extract it through Winzip it gives all the files exactly as you described above. I...
Mr Ashley Trowell (19 days 0 hours ago): Thank you so much for this analysis. Also, I find it somewhat horrifying. The take away seems to be to use && / || and NOT and / or. Thanks a bunch! ~Ashley
Matt (24 days 2 hours ago): Late reply I know, but you can call custom shortcuts with alt-#. Hold down Alt to see what number is assigned to the shortcuts you’ve created. Now if there was a way to create a...
James (31 days 20 hours ago): Is there a way to change the location of the window? They pop up at random locations and the user has to chase them down.
Robin (32 days 5 hours ago): Hi Yair, This has been a great help. With the removal of com.mathworks sometime in the future (as announced in R2020b), is there an alternative? For me, just getting a preference...
Eric Dziekonski (54 days 2 hours ago): This is fantastic! Thanks everyone! To get access to CEF on 2019b, I had to take the advise of Jeffery Devereux and Xiangrui Li. warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % suppress...
Yair Altman (54 days 8 hours ago): jPanel1.setParent(jPanel2) will reparent jPanel1 (and similarly any Java component/container) inside jPanel2 (any Java container). While this might work, it seems to me to be an...
Eivind (54 days 23 hours ago): Hi, Thanks for a great function! I was trying to put the main panel of my figure into a scrollable panel with the goal of zooming into the panel using shift+scroll and scrolling up...
Yair Altman (69 days 9 hours ago): There is no direct way to replicate the CW in a GUI window, you’ll need to display the text in the GUI using your program logic. Here is one possible implementation that...
Sunki Reddy Gunugu (71 days 7 hours ago): hi 1.i would like to know how the error in command window of matlab is captured and displayed in the GUI with the same color in CW 2. Is their any way to replicate the...
Matthias Brenneis (74 days 1 hour ago): Hi, thank you so much for the inspiring work and comments! My issue is: As soon as the panel gets an axes, the panel is no longer transparent: f =...
Collin (93 days 23 hours ago): Yair, In 2020a Mathworks added this semi-useful class matlab.ui.internal.JavaMigrati onTools Which contains static methods to call javacomponent, actxcontrol or to get an...