Hidden property

Getting default HG property values

Matlab has documented how to modify default property values, but not how to get the full list of current defaults. This article explains how to do this.

February 13, 2013 7 Comments Read More »

uiinspect

uiinspect is a Matlab utility that displays detailed information about an object's methods, properties and callbacks in a single GUI window.

January 23, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Undocumented scatter plot jitter

Matlab's scatter plot can automatically jitter data to enable better visualization of distribution density.

June 6, 2012 4 Comments Read More »

Types of undocumented Matlab aspects

This article lists the different types of undocumented/unsupported/hidden aspects in Matlab

November 24, 2011 No Comments Read More »

Determining axes zoom state

The information of whether or not an axes is zoomed or panned can easily be inferred from an internal undocumented object.

November 10, 2011 11 Comments Read More »

getundoc – get undocumented object properties

getundoc is a very simple utility that displays the hidden (undocumented) properties of a specified handle object.

September 21, 2011 8 Comments Read More »

Controlling plot data-tips

Data-tips are an extremely useful plotting tool that can easily be controlled programmatically.

September 14, 2011 82 Comments Read More »

Uitable sorting

Matlab's uitables can be sortable using simple undocumented features

July 26, 2011 45 Comments Read More »

Minimize/maximize figure window

Matlab figure windows can easily be maximized, minimized and restored using a bit of undocumented magic powder

May 18, 2011 51 Comments Read More »

Transparent Matlab figure window

Matlab figure windows can be made fully or partially transparent/translucent or blurred - this article explains how

April 13, 2011 18 Comments Read More »

Yair Altman (1 day 13 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 (2 days 3 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 (8 days 11 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 (16 days 14 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 (16 days 14 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
Veronica Taurino (16 days 14 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 (19 days 14 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...
mrv (19 days 19 hours ago): hello, I used MATLAB 2019b update9, I have add jgraphx.jar to javaclassapth, and restart matlab, but still got errors below: Warning: A Java exception occurred trying to load the...
xuejie wu (43 days 14 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
Yair Altman (55 days 6 hours ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
Sagar Chawla (55 days 6 hours ago): I want to know how to change the x-axis to the z-axis. I mean the position. Like if there is a 3d animated graph then how to change position of the axis. X-axis in place of...
Ren (55 days 7 hours ago): I noticed that xlsread will create a hidden and never-dying special server that always has priority when actxGetRunningServer is called. So this cause a problem that no matter how many...
Ben Abbott (58 days 22 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()
Yair Altman (59 days 1 hour ago): @Ben – it looks perfectly ok (with color gradient and all) on my R2022a… Perhaps you missed some of the steps (e.g. setting the ColorBinding to 'interpolated') or...
Ben Abbott (59 days 1 hour ago): The graded color is not working for me using R2021a. The plot “HG2 plot line color, transparency gradient” looks exactly like “Transparent HG2 plot...