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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 »
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  • Patrick Fitzgerald (1 day 19 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 14 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 14 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 7 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 7 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 13 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 16 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 23 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 17 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 19 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 2 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
  • Manzn (44 days 5 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
  • Yerlan (45 days 10 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 2 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 13 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...
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