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 17 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 »

Yair Altman (8 days 8 hours ago): Robot only runs when you tell it to run a command such as keyPress. If you don’t tell it to run a command, it uses no CPU, so there’s no need to remove the Robot...
Eric (8 days 20 hours ago): Hey @Kevin, can you share your code about create group of figures in the AppContainer? The container of multiples uifigures could be an amazing improvement over AppDesigner and its...
Elsa Smith (9 days 10 hours ago): I recently used java.awt.Robot to perform GUI testing on MATLAB and found it to be an extremely easy and useful way to control mouse movements.
Elsa Smith (9 days 11 hours ago): I’m suspecting that the slow performance of my GUI may be due to the use of java.awt.Robot. Is there a way to cancel/stop/remove the robot after it has been created, or is...
Michelle Kline (10 days 4 hours ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
Michelle Kline (10 days 4 hours ago): Thank you, Yair! With this previously-unknown-to-me tip about fwrite() performance, you have saved me literally hours of processing time. Michelle Kline Department of...
Alessandro Beda (22 days 16 hours ago): I found what I think is a bug related to this (tested in R2022 and R2023a). If I add a “ButtonDownFcn” to the plots (see example below), then the modified...
Nicholas (24 days 6 hours ago): Yair, Changing the desktop help options did not solve the issue. Though, it’s unclear how I could change these options in the Runtime, if that’s what you meant? I should...
Yair Altman (28 days 1 hour ago): @Francisco – this is one of those cases where you should ask MathWorks support. After all, you’re trying to use a supported Matlab functionality when you encountered...
Francisco Campos (28 days 13 hours ago): Hello, thanks for all your work that has been immensely useful for those working in the Matlab environment. I have been trying to replace matlabcontrol with the official...
Yair Altman (32 days 14 hours ago): Kei – this is possible, I believe that I saw this ability somewhere, a few years ago. I don’t remember exactly where, it will require a bit of research, but...
Kei (32 days 16 hours ago): Hello Yair Thank you for this great article. I would like to freeze first two columns in uitable. Do you know if such option is available? Since looks like this option is not available...
Andrés Aguilar (36 days 4 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
Yair Altman (45 days 2 hours ago): I posted my treeTable utility 10 years ago for anyone to use freely, on an as-is basis, without any warranty, updates or support. If you need any customization or assistance...
JY (45 days 3 hours ago): Yair, could you respond to this question please? I’m also finding it difficult to implement such a multi-hierarchy table. Thanks