Java

Matlab toolstrip – part 9 (popup figures)

Custom popup figures can be attached to Matlab GUI toolstrip controls.

February 10, 2019 6 Comments Read More »

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 »

Scrollable GUI panels

Scrollbars can easily be added to Matlab panels, to enable scroll-panes of GUI controls and axes.

July 25, 2018 3 Comments Read More »

Blocked wait with timeout for asynchronous events

It is easy to convert asynchronous (streaming) events into a blocked wait in Matlab.

May 13, 2018 No Comments Read More »

Spicing up the Matlab Editor

Matlab's Editor and Workspace can be enhanced quite significantly using an open-source utility.

March 30, 2018 One Comment Read More »

Adding custom properties to GUI objects

It is very easy to add custom user-defined properties and methods to GUI handles and Java references in Matlab.

February 15, 2018 6 Comments Read More »

IP address input control

A built-in JIDE control can be used in Matlab GUI for IP-address entry/display.

January 31, 2018 3 Comments Read More »

Toolbar button labels

GUI toolbar button labels can easily be set and customized using underlying Java components.

January 8, 2018 No Comments Read More »

Using SQLite in Matlab

SQLite databases can be accessed in a variety of different ways in Matlab.

December 27, 2017 3 Comments Read More »

PlotEdit context-menu customization

A combination of Matlab and Java Robot commands to automate a certain animation can be used when we cannot access underlying GUI/graphics code.

December 13, 2017 No Comments Read More »

Patrick Fitzgerald (1 day 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 (17 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 (17 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 (21 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...
Alex Churchill (21 days 6 hours ago): I was looking up how to do this exact task today. I was about to hold my nose and use the internal controllib function, when I happened to chance across a slightly newer...
Sebastian Hölz (27 days 12 hours ago): I have not investigated this in detail, but I think one way to go in new versions of Matlab (>2019b) might be to use listeners to suitable figure properties, e.g. fig =...
Prathep (27 days 15 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thanks for your introduction on Matlab Toostrip. Is there any way to add Matlab toolstrip for uifigures as you have done already for figure?
Josh (33 days 21 hours ago): Dear Yair, Small typo; you wrote >>Move lines up or down – CTRL + ALT + UP or DOWN allows you to move selected lines up or down but it’s actually ALT+SHIFT then UP/DOWN...
Yair Altman (40 days 16 hours ago): You can try to increase the Java heap memory size in the Matlab preferences (General => Java Heap Memory). Any changes to the settings will only take effect after restarting...
Thomas (40 days 17 hours ago): Hello, thanks for sharing! I currently receive the following memory error message when using savezip with a big object (Matlab R2020b, Windows 10). Error using...
Yair Altman (44 days 1 hour ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
Manzn (44 days 3 hours ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
Yerlan (45 days 8 hours ago): Hello Mr. Altman, how can I disable menu items in the context menu? E.g. when I am trying to do this: menuItems = jmenu.getSubElements; menuItem1 = menuItems(1);...
Yair Altman (46 days 0 hours ago): Thanks for the note Eric – you forgot the crucial call to jTable.setLabelTable(labelTabl e) – I added it into your code snippet above.
Erik (47 days 12 hours ago): Thank you for this — I don’t know if this has been mentioned anywhere else before, but it could be useful to mention how to add custom labels to a jslider. I did the...