FindJObj

Faster findjobj

the ubiquitous findjobj utility has been significantly improved for speed for the most common use case.

April 11, 2016 11 Comments Read More »

Listbox layout customization

Matlab's listbox layout can be modified to display multiple item columns and different inter-cell margins.

November 13, 2013 14 Comments Read More »

Customizing editboxes

Matlab's editbox can be customized in many useful manners

September 25, 2013 9 Comments Read More »

Variables Editor scrolling

The Matlab Variables Editor can be accessed to provide immediate scrolling to a specified cell location.

September 11, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Disabling menu entries in deployed docked figures

Matlab's standard menu items can and should be removed from deployed docked figures. This article explains how.

November 14, 2012 14 Comments Read More »

Uitable cell colors

A few Java-based customizations can transform a plain-looking data table into a lively colored one.

October 26, 2011 123 Comments Read More »

Tri-state checkbox

Matlab checkboxes can easily be made to support tri-state functionality.

October 19, 2011 5 Comments Read More »

Customizing uicontrol border

Matlab uicontrol borders can easily be modified - this article shows how

October 31, 2010 14 Comments Read More »

JIDE Property Grids

The JIDE components pre-bundled in Matlab enable creating user-customized property grid tables

April 21, 2010 17 Comments Read More »

Additional uicontrol tooltip hacks

Matlab's uicontrol tooltips have several limitations that can be overcome using the control's underlying Java object.

February 17, 2010 7 Comments Read More »

Josh (18 hours 33 minutes 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 (7 days 13 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 (7 days 14 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 (10 days 21 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (11 days 0 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (12 days 5 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 (12 days 21 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 (14 days 8 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...
turhv (27 days 3 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
Jianfei (60 days 7 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 (66 days 2 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 (71 days 16 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (73 days 18 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 (76 days 3 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 (81 days 5 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...