Transparent uipanels
Matlab uipanels can be made transparent, for very useful effects.
GUI
Undocumented button highlighting
Matlab button uicontrols can easily be highlighted by simply setting their Value property.
Listbox layout customization
Matlab's listbox layout can be modified to display multiple item columns and different inter-cell margins.
Using JIDE combo-boxes
Matlab includes many custom JIDE combo-box controls that can be used in Matlab GUIs out of the box.
Editable combo-box
Matlab's popup menu (combo-box) control is quite limited in its abilities. This article explains how we can work around these limitations.
Editbox data input validation
Undocumented features of Matlab editbox uicontrols enable immediate user-input data validation
Customizing editboxes
Matlab's editbox can be customized in many useful manners
Rich-contents log panel
Matlab listboxes and editboxes can be used to display rich-contents HTML-formatted strings, which is ideal for log panels.
treeTable
A description of a sortable, groupable tree-table control that can be used in Matlab is provided.
Using Java 7 in Matlab R2013a and earlier
Java 7 can be installed on Matlab releases that currently have Java 6. This article describes the process.