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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
  • Iñigo (2 days 6 hours ago): Thanks Yair. I didn’t realize it was posted just above. It would be great to know about a solution soon
  • Yair Altman (3 days 13 hours ago): @Iñigo – your query is related to Seth’s question above. We can access the currently-browsed URL in JavaScript (for example: jBrowserPanel.executeScript...
  • Iñigo (5 days 5 hours ago): I am looking for setting a UI that allows following process: opening a web site, navigate inside this web site and at some specific moments (i.e. when the figure is closed or a button...
  • Nicholas (12 days 10 hours ago): Yair, this works wonderfully! I can’t thank you enough!
  • Collin (14 days 14 hours ago): Seth Good point, I am using 2022b, mathworks seems to have started using CEF browsers from 2019a, best I can tell. take a look at the package com.mathworks.toolbox.matla...
  • Seth (15 days 6 hours ago): Collin, What version of MATLAB are you using?
  • Collin (20 days 12 hours ago): Seth, I have had some success executing javascript that requires no return value by executing it directly (sort of) on the org.cef.browser.CefBrowser that a...
  • Coo Coo (22 days 7 hours ago): FFT-based convolution is circular whereas MATLAB’s conv functions have several options (‘valid’, ‘same’, ‘full’) but unfortunately not...
  • Seth (22 days 10 hours ago): No luck with removing the space.
  • Seth (22 days 12 hours ago): The javascript code works fine running the application from the 2019b desktop version and the 2016b deployed version.
  • Seth (22 days 12 hours ago): I have been using this browser functionality in 2016b because it works fully in deployed applications in that version. However, because of Java 7 being flagged as a security risk, I...
  • Yair Altman (22 days 12 hours ago): I’ve never tested javascript callbacks, but perhaps you should try removing the extra space after the “matlab:” protocol specifier. Does it make any difference?
  • Seth (22 days 13 hours ago): I have been using this functionality in 2016b since it works in deployed applications and have not had a reason to need to upgrade but with java 7 being flagged as a security risk I am...
  • KEVIN (42 days 13 hours ago): I apologize, I intended my response to fall under ‘T’ but did not seem to work. I was referring to the bit of code posted by ‘T’ regarding the toolgroup and...
  • Yair Altman (42 days 14 hours ago): It is not clear from your comment which code exactly you are referring to and what you see differently in 19b vs. 20b, so I cannot assist with your specific query. In general I...
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