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 15 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 »

Sunham (2 days 14 hours ago): This is an old article, but the issue persists even in 2023. 2023a: z = mat2cell(1:1e6,1,repmat(1,1,1e 6)); f = @() cellfun(‘isempty’, z); g = @() cellfun(@isempty,z);...
Yair Altman (12 days 4 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 (12 days 16 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 (13 days 6 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 (13 days 7 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 (14 days 0 hours ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
Michelle Kline (14 days 0 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 (26 days 12 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 (28 days 2 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 (31 days 21 hours 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 (32 days 9 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 (36 days 10 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 (36 days 13 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 (40 days 0 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
Yair Altman (48 days 22 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...