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Matlab toolstrip – part 5 (icons)

Icons can be specified in various ways for toolstrip controls and the app window itself.

January 6, 2019 2 Comments Read More »

Images in Matlab uicontrols & labels

Images can be added to Matlab controls and labels in a variety of manners, documented and undocumented.

October 17, 2012 29 Comments Read More »

Customizing menu items part 3

Matlab menu items can easily display custom icons, using just a tiny bit of Java magic powder.

May 9, 2012 39 Comments Read More »

Uitab colors, icons and images

Matlab's semi-documented tab panels can be customized using some undocumented hacks

November 10, 2010 42 Comments Read More »

Customizing uitree nodes – part 2

This article shows how Matlab GUI tree nodes can be customized with checkboxes and similar controls

September 1, 2010 61 Comments Read More »

Customizing uitree nodes – part 1

This article describes how to customize specific nodes of Matlab GUI tree controls created using the undocumented uitree function

August 25, 2010 33 Comments Read More »

Figure toolbar components

Matlab's toolbars can be customized using a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks. This article describes how to access existing toolbar icons and how to add non-button toolbar components.

August 27, 2009 50 Comments Read More »

Setting system tray popup messages

System-tray icons and messages can be programmatically set and controlled from within Matlab, using new functionality available since R2007b.

March 31, 2009 21 Comments Read More »

Setting system tray icons

System-tray icons can be programmatically set and controlled from within Matlab, using new functionality available since R2007b.

March 24, 2009 15 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • Yair Altman (13 days 5 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 (13 days 5 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
  • Veronica Taurino (13 days 6 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 (16 days 6 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 (16 days 10 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 (40 days 6 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
  • Yair Altman (51 days 22 hours ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
  • Sagar Chawla (51 days 22 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 (51 days 23 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 (55 days 13 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()
  • Yair Altman (55 days 17 hours 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 (55 days 17 hours 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...
  • Yair Altman (78 days 20 hours ago): Oliver – you probably forgot to update hMarkers.FaceColorType to ‘truecoloralpha‘: x=1:10; y=10*x; figure; hLine = plot(x,y,'o-'); drawnow...
  • Oliver (78 days 20 hours ago): This seems to have been disabled in the most recent version of Matlab (R2021b). When I use this method the hMarker.FaceColorData does change, but the markers are not made...
  • Yair Altman (97 days 18 hours ago): @Tim – the new uidatepicker() function only works with web-based figures (created using the uifigure() function or App Designer); it is not available on the legacy...
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