Donn Shull

Adding dynamic properties to graphic handles

It is easy and very useful to attach dynamic properties to Matlab graphics objects in run-time.

September 16, 2015 4 Comments Read More »

Simulink Data Dictionary

Simulink contains undocumented public API for access to its data dictionary functionality.

February 11, 2015 15 Comments Read More »

Extending a Java class with UDD

Java classes can easily be extended in Matlab, using pure Matlab code.

March 29, 2012 14 Comments Read More »

Minimize/maximize figure window

Matlab figure windows can easily be maximized, minimized and restored using a bit of undocumented magic powder

May 18, 2011 51 Comments Read More »

UDD and Java

UDD provides built-in convenience methods to facilitate the integration of Matlab UDD objects with Java code - this article explains how

March 23, 2011 4 Comments Read More »

UDD Events and Listeners

UDD event listeners can be used to listen to property value changes and other important events of Matlab objects

March 16, 2011 32 Comments Read More »

UDD Properties

UDD provides a very convenient way to add customizable properties to existing Matlab object handles

March 9, 2011 8 Comments Read More »

Hierarchical Systems with UDD

UDD objects can be grouped in structured hierarchies - this article explains how

March 2, 2011 10 Comments Read More »

Creating a simple UDD class

This article explains how to create and test custom UDD packages, classes and objects

February 23, 2011 6 Comments Read More »

Introduction to UDD

UDD classes underlie many of Matlab's handle-graphics objects and functionality. This article introduces these classes.

February 16, 2011 7 Comments Read More »

Jianfei (3 days 5 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 (9 days 0 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 14 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (16 days 16 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 1 hour 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 3 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 22 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 6 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 3 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 9 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 (55 days 0 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 10 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 8 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 3 hours 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 (94 days 0 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...