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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 6 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 »

Donato Coppola (8 hours 11 minutes ago): Hi Yair! I have a problem with the treetable. I disabled the editing of the table, but if Itry to compile the app, this property is ignored and the table became editable. Is...
Amin zaami (18 days 20 hours ago): I have the same problem as Nicholas, The function works fine on R2022, but when compiled it fails (I used com.mathworks.mlwidgets.help.L ightweightHelpPanel), I tried compiling...
Rolf (37 days 2 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 (44 days 20 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 (45 days 1 hour 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 (67 days 2 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
Eric Delgado (96 days 5 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 (96 days 5 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 (113 days 2 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (114 days 0 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 (114 days 18 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 (117 days 13 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 (127 days 3 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 (127 days 14 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 (128 days 5 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.