Hidden property

Undocumented plot marker types

Undocumented plot marker styles can easily be accesses using a hidden plot-line property.

March 13, 2019 One Comment Read More »

Matlab toolstrip – part 4 (control customization)

Matlab toolstrip components (controls) can be customized in various ways, including user-defined callbacks.

December 30, 2018 No Comments Read More »

Customizing contour plots part 2

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

November 12, 2017 11 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 13 Comments Read More »

Figure window customizations

Matlab figure windows can be customized in numerous manners using the underlying Java Frame reference.

June 1, 2016 No Comments Read More »

Customizing contour plots

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

November 18, 2015 12 Comments Read More »

Figure keypress modifiers

The figure's CurrentModifier property provides a simple and consistent way to retrieve keypress modifiers: alt-, control- and shift-clicks.

November 4, 2015 6 Comments Read More »

Using linkaxes vs. linkprop

linkaxes has a built-in limitation, so using linkprop may sometimes be beneficial.

July 22, 2015 8 Comments Read More »

Undocumented view transformation matrix

Matlab's view function returns an undocumented output transformation matrix.

April 15, 2015 5 Comments Read More »

Transparent legend

Matlab chart legends are opaque be default but can be made semi- or fully transparent.

March 11, 2015 No Comments Read More »

Marcel (12 days 10 hours ago): Hi, I am trying to set the legend to Static, but this command seems not to work in R2022a anymore: set(gca,’LegendColorbarL isteners’,[]); Any ideas? THANKS / marcel
Gres (12 days 14 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});
Yair Altman (14 days 9 hours ago): @Mitchell – in most cases the user wants a single string identifier for the computer, that uniquely identifies it with a distinct fingerprint that is different from any...
Mitchell (14 days 18 hours ago): Great post! I’m not very familiar with the network interfaces being referenced here, but it seems like the java-based cross-platform method concatenates all network...
Yair Altman (17 days 11 hours ago): Dani – You can use jViewport.setViewPosition(java .awt.Point(0,0)) as I showed in earlier comments here
dani (18 days 7 hours ago): hi!! how i can set the horizontal scrollbar to the leftside when appearing! now it set to right side of text
Yair Altman (27 days 3 hours ago): Dom – call drawnow *just before* you set hLine.MarkerHandle.FaceColorTy pe to 'truecoloralpha'. Also, you made a typo in your code: it’s truecoloralpha, not...
Dom (28 days 2 hours ago): Yair I have tried your code with trucoloralpha and the markers do not appear transparent in R2021b, same as for Oliver.
Yair Altman (31 days 9 hours ago): Ren – This is usually the expected behavior, which avoids unnecessary duplications of the Excel process in CPU/memory. If you want to kill the process you can always run...
Yair Altman (31 days 23 hours ago): When you use plot() without hold(‘on’), each new plot() clears the axes and draws a new line, so your second plot() of p2 caused the first plot() line (p1) to be...
Cesim Dumlu (38 days 7 hours ago): Hello. I am trying to do a gradient plot for multiple functions to be displayed on the same axes and each one is colorcoded by respective colordata, using the same scaling. The...
Yair Altman (46 days 10 hours ago): @Veronica – you are using the new version of uitree, which uses HTML-based uifigures, and my post was about the Java-based uitree which uses legacy Matlab figures. For...
Veronica Taurino (46 days 10 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
Veronica Taurino (46 days 10 hours ago): Hello, I am just trying to change the uitree node name as you suggested: txt1 = 'abra'; txt2 = 'kadabra'; node.setName([txt1,txt2]); >> "Unrecognized method, property, or...
Yair Altman (49 days 10 hours ago): The version of JGraph that you downloaded uses a newer version of Java (11) than the one that Matlab supports (8). You need to either (1) find an earlier version of JGraph that...