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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 »
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Recent Comments
  • Rolf (18 days 5 hours ago): Disclosure: This comes from the developer/vendor of the Code Checker for MATLAB. Have a look at the Code Checker for MATLAB by MonkeyProof Solutions which has many such (configurable)...
  • Yair Altman (25 days 22 hours ago): In theory you could use the data: URI scheme (e.g. .load('data:text/html,<html ><body>Hello world</body></html>')), but for some reason it doesn’t work well in...
  • Sebastian (26 days 4 hours ago): Thanks for your update to the now unsupported `HTMLBrowserPanel`. I tried to replace it with the `LightweightHelpPanel` but the application I am working on is showing generated...
  • Leuze (48 days 5 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
  • Eric Delgado (77 days 7 hours ago): Hey Yair, I think your site is the right place to share that I wrote ccTools, a lib that allows a lot of customizations of Matlab built-in web components (such as uifigure,...
  • Eric Delgado (77 days 7 hours ago): Hey guys, first of all, thanks to @Yair, your site saved me a lot of times! 🙂 That’s why I am sharing that I wrote m2mlapp (*.m => *.mlapp) file conversion, that...
  • François (94 days 5 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
  • Yair Altman (95 days 3 hours ago): I am not familiar with a universal catch-all tab-completion mechanism for all functions, and it also doesn’t make much sense to me, because different functions use...
  • Arye (95 days 21 hours ago): hi, is there a universal functionSignature.json file that will allow my to get the function hints when opening brackets of my funcs? something that automaticly recognize my function...
  • Sunham (98 days 16 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 (108 days 6 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 (108 days 17 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 (109 days 8 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 (109 days 8 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 (110 days 1 hour ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
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