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Auto-scale image colors

Images can be automatically color-scaled for maximum resolution, using the undocumented MarkedClean event.

February 21, 2018 One Comment Read More »

Enabling user callbacks during zoom/pan

Matlab zoom, pan and rotate3d modes hijack the user's figure callbacks, but this can be overridden.

October 28, 2015 11 Comments Read More »

Using linkaxes vs. linkprop

linkaxes has a built-in limitation, so using linkprop may sometimes be beneficial.

July 22, 2015 7 Comments Read More »

Undocumented HG2 graphics events

Matlab's new HG2 graphics engine includes many new undocumented events that could be used in various ways.

May 27, 2015 14 Comments Read More »

Disabling menu entries in deployed docked figures

Matlab's standard menu items can and should be removed from deployed docked figures. This article explains how.

November 14, 2012 14 Comments Read More »

Setting axes tick labels format

Matlab plot axes ticks can be customized in a way that will automatically update whenever the tick values change.

April 18, 2012 18 Comments Read More »

UDD and Java

UDD provides built-in convenience methods to facilitate the integration of Matlab UDD objects with Java code - this article explains how

March 23, 2011 4 Comments Read More »

UDD Events and Listeners

UDD event listeners can be used to listen to property value changes and other important events of Matlab objects

March 16, 2011 32 Comments Read More »

Introduction to UDD

UDD classes underlie many of Matlab's handle-graphics objects and functionality. This article introduces these classes.

February 16, 2011 7 Comments Read More »

Multi-column (grid) legend

This article explains how to use undocumented axes listeners for implementing multi-column plot legends

February 7, 2011 5 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • Josh (19 hours 10 minutes 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 (7 days 13 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 (7 days 15 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 (10 days 22 hours ago): Yerlan – either use menuItem1.setEnabled(0) or set(menuItem1,'Enabled',0)
  • Manzn (11 days 1 hour ago): Thank you man! you saved me, when there was no more light 😀
  • Yerlan (12 days 6 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 (12 days 22 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 (14 days 9 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...
  • turhv (27 days 4 hours ago): very nice! work perfectly to me in MATLAB 2019a. thanks!!!
  • Jianfei (60 days 7 hours ago): I have tried the MathWorks CheckBoxList in Matlab 2015b. For whatever the reason, I can’t change the font properties. I can change the font color, but changing font properties...
  • Donato Coppola (66 days 3 hours ago): Hi Yair, I have a problem with the double format. When I run the treeTable function, the numbers in double format cells are displayed with comma as decimal separator. How can...
  • Kim (71 days 17 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
  • Adil (73 days 18 hours ago): Thank you for the blog, it was useful for me. I have a file named App_project.mlapp.zip and when I extract it through Winzip it gives all the files exactly as you described above. I...
  • Mr Ashley Trowell (76 days 4 hours ago): Thank you so much for this analysis. Also, I find it somewhat horrifying. The take away seems to be to use && / || and NOT and / or. Thanks a bunch! ~Ashley
  • Matt (81 days 6 hours ago): Late reply I know, but you can call custom shortcuts with alt-#. Hold down Alt to see what number is assigned to the shortcuts you’ve created. Now if there was a way to create a...
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