Handle graphics

Improving graphics interactivity

Matlab R2018b added default axes mouse interactivity at the expense of performance. Luckily, we can speed-up the default axes.

April 22, 2019 No Comments Read More »

Plot legend customization

Matlab plot legends and their internal components can be customized using a variety of undocumented properties that are easily accessible.

July 12, 2018 7 Comments Read More »

Customizing axes tick labels

Multiple customizations can be applied to tick labels.

January 24, 2018 5 Comments Read More »

Customizing histogram plots

Basic bar charts and histogram plots can be customized in important aspects.

January 17, 2018 No Comments Read More »

PlotEdit context-menu customization

A combination of Matlab and Java Robot commands to automate a certain animation can be used when we cannot access underlying GUI/graphics code.

December 13, 2017 No Comments Read More »

Customizing contour plots part 2

Matlab contour labels' color and font can easily be customized.

November 12, 2017 9 Comments Read More »

Matlab GUI training seminars – Zurich, 29-30 August 2017

Advanced Matlab training courses on Matlab User Interfaces (GUI) will be presented in Zurich Switzerland on 29-30 August, 2017

August 4, 2017 No Comments Read More »

Customizing axes part 5 – origin crossover and labels

The axes rulers (axles) can be made to cross-over at any x,y location within the chart.

July 27, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Graphic sizing in Matlab R2015b

Matlab release R2015b's new "DPI-aware" nature broke some important functionality. Here's what can be done...

January 20, 2016 8 Comments Read More »

Customizing contour plots

Contour labels, lines and fill patches can easily be customized in Matlab HG2.

November 18, 2015 10 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (5 days 1 hour ago): Philip – perhaps you forgot to update the table’s model to a DefaultStyleTableModel. In any case, this topic is way outside the scope of this blog, which is...
Philip (5 days 1 hour ago): Yair, I am a bit of a novice at programming with Java. Would you please expound a bit more or provide an example on how to use JIDE’s CellStyle in MATLAB? I have successfully...
Yair Altman (9 days 12 hours ago): @Philip – in the Java-based uitable you can use JIDE’s CellStyle to customize specific cells. Refer to JIDE’s documentation for details. In the web-based...
Philip (9 days 13 hours ago): Yair, You may have addressed this already in the past, if so, please kindly point me to the appropriate article(s). My issue is with creating a table which has (not column but) cell...
Yair Altman (14 days 11 hours ago): The javacomponent function returns 2 objects: a Java reference and a Matlab container. Simply set the value of the Units property of the Matlab container to...
Neeks (14 days 16 hours ago): This looks elegant. Thank you. One issue I am not able to sort out – on maximizing the figure window the location of “javax.swing.JSliderR 21; object does not scale...
Xiangrui Li (19 days 8 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thank you for digging into this. It seems I need following to get CEF container = struct(controllerProps.Platfor mHost);
Yair Altman (19 days 19 hours ago): Matlab recently modified the internal structure. You can now access the web-window (CEF) object as follows: hFig = uifigure(...); warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % suppress...
Xiangrui Li (20 days 8 hours ago): It seems the`Container` is removed. I see this error in R2019b: container = controllerProps.Container; Reference to non-existent field 'Container'.
Tim (27 days 12 hours ago): Thank you for this post, it is very useful. It seems that when using plot3, if I have more than 25,000 points and I change my figure size or rotate the image, the MarkerHandle values...
Rohit (33 days 18 hours ago): How do we put “MJDimensionPicker” ; in a “TSdropDownButton” ? (As it is in [ View (Tab) –> Tiles (Column) –> Custom (Drop-Down Button)] ). Thanks again...
Yair Altman (36 days 2 hours ago): Andrea – sqlite4java is an open-source project (https://code.google.com/archi ve/p/sqlite4java). You can modify its code and/or submit an issue on that project’s...
Andrea Carignano (36 days 3 hours ago): Thank you very much! I am using the first method of this article: sqlite4java. I have just a little problem. After every operation on database, I get some red messages in...
Wil Koenen (42 days 22 hours ago): The undocumented syntax, e.g. classdef MyClass properties prop@double scalar = 3; end end runs fine in R2019a, but produces a warning in R2019b: Warning: Class 'MyClass' uses an...
Jacopo (45 days 0 hours ago): I’m currently using Matlab 2019b. For the application (software) I’m currently developing, I would like to modify the toolstrip of a Simulink window I’m opening...