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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 »

Sliders in Matlab GUI – part 2

Matlab contains a variety of ways to define/display slider controls in GUI windows.

July 5, 2018 9 Comments Read More »

Builtin PopupPanel widget

We can use a built-in Matlab popup-panel widget control to display lightweight popups that are attached to a figure window.

December 6, 2017 One Comment Read More »

Sending HTML emails from Matlab

Matlab's sendmail only sends simple text messages by default; a simple hack can cause it to send HTML-formatted messages.

August 3, 2017 2 Comments Read More »

uigetfile/uiputfile customizations

A file-selector dialog window that includes an integrated preview panel is shown and explained.

November 3, 2016 8 Comments Read More »

MEX ctrl-c interrupt

An undocumented MEX function can help interrupt running MEX functions.

June 15, 2016 5 Comments Read More »

Adding a search box to figure toolbar

An interactive search-box can easily be added to a Matlab figure toolbar for enhanced user experience.

March 30, 2016 3 Comments Read More »

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 2

Non-standard shortcut controls and customizations can easily be added to the Matlab desktop.

December 30, 2015 5 Comments Read More »

Programmatic shortcuts manipulation – part 1

Matlab Desktop shortcuts can be programmatically accessed and customized.

December 23, 2015 7 Comments Read More »

Font selection components

Several built-in components enable programmatic font selection in Matlab GUI - this article explains how.

October 7, 2015 3 Comments Read More »

matse (2 days 8 hours ago): Is there a possibility to rotate the controllib.widget.Slider? So to have it vertical? Thanks!
Yair Altman (7 days 11 hours ago): Perhaps it’s because the table is empty, I don’t know. In any case, I think you can ignore this error, I don’t think that it affects the functionality.
Yeah (7 days 14 hours ago): I have the “Exception in thread “AWT-EventQueue-0″ java.lang.NullPointerException ” proplem.. and I add these lines in my function. the java warning message...
Yair Altman (17 days 16 hours ago): I assume that you refer to the html tags example for uitable at the bottom of the article. If you click a uitable cell, you enter editor mode, and this may behave in an...
Ajay Krishna (17 days 20 hours ago): Hello Yair, i tried replicating the example with all the cells center aligned. The problem is when i click the 1st cell the text of neighbouring cell changes to white or it...
Vinicius (19 days 5 hours ago): I would just like to thank you for your fantastic work. I was looking for ages for a SIMPLE way to do this!
todd welti (29 days 5 hours ago): Is there any way to prevent Matlab opening axis props window when you quickly turn off/on a plot line from the plot browser? I find that most annoying.
Yair Altman (31 days 4 hours ago): Perhaps you tried to access the class before you used javaaddpath to add the JAR file to the classpath. If Matlab fails to find a class, then it will not be able to access it...
mukesh Muthu (31 days 5 hours ago): i get the following error , im using matlab 2016b-64bit if i use graph = com.mxgraph.view.mxGraph Undefined variable "com" or class "com.mxgraph.view.mxGraph". if i use graph =...
Sebastian Hölz (36 days 0 hours ago): OK, Been working on this again and found a solution which works in 2020a and 2020b. Below a working example which resets the KeyPressFcn for all ui-modes after activating...
JCFL (38 days 13 hours ago): I was trying the above trick to change the transparency of contour lines and wondering why not all the lines have changed — then I found your post. Thanks and your post saved me.
Patrick Fitzgerald (40 days 17 hours ago): Just a heads up to anyone else digging around for help related to this: if you assign BackrgoundColor to a pushbutton-style uicontrol, it seems to prevent you from...
Vasiliy (56 days 13 hours ago): Hi Yair, i’m trying to use the MonthChooserPanel class. com.mathworks.mwswing.MJUtilit ies.initJIDE; handles.jPanel = com.jidesoft.combobox.MonthCho oserPanel;...
DM (56 days 13 hours ago): Hi Yair, I’m trying to use the MonthChooserPanel class. com.mathworks.mwswing.MJUtilit ies.initJIDE; handles.jPanel = com.jidesoft.combobox.MonthCho oserPanel; [handles.hPanel,...
Yair Altman (60 days 5 hours ago): @Alex – thanks, but keep in mind that new functions will only work on the recent Matlab releases. If your code needs to work on older Matlab releases, you could revert to...