Malcolm Lidierth

Solving an mput (FTP) hang problem

Matlab may hang when using passive FTP commands such as mput and dir. A simple workaround is available to fix this.

August 19, 2015 3 Comments Read More »

Waterloo graphics animation and web deployment

Waterloo graphics can be updated very quickly in Matlab, enabling plot animation; web deployment of the graphics is also possible.

July 3, 2013 12 Comments Read More »

Waterloo graphics beta

The Waterloo graphics library extends Matlab graphics with numerous customizable plots that can be embedded in Matlab figures.

June 26, 2013 11 Comments Read More »

Waterloo graphics examples

Some Matlab usage examples for the open-source Waterloo graphics package.

December 5, 2012 48 Comments Read More »

Waterloo graphics

Waterloo is an open-source library that can significantly improve Matlab GUI.

November 28, 2012 39 Comments Read More »

Using Groovy in Matlab

Groovy code can seamlessly be run from within Matlab.

July 4, 2012 8 Comments Read More »

Controlling callback re-entrancy

Callback reentrancy is a major problem for frequently-fired events. Luckily, it can easily be solved.

August 10, 2011 17 Comments Read More »

Transparent Matlab figure window

Matlab figure windows can be made fully or partially transparent/translucent or blurred - this article explains how

April 13, 2011 18 Comments Read More »

Sunham (3 days 7 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 (12 days 21 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 (13 days 8 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 (13 days 23 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.
Elsa Smith (14 days 0 hours ago): I’m suspecting that the slow performance of my GUI may be due to the use of java.awt.Robot. Is there a way to cancel/stop/remove the robot after it has been created, or is...
Michelle Kline (14 days 17 hours ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
Michelle Kline (14 days 17 hours ago): Thank you, Yair! With this previously-unknown-to-me tip about fwrite() performance, you have saved me literally hours of processing time. Michelle Kline Department of...
Alessandro Beda (27 days 5 hours ago): I found what I think is a bug related to this (tested in R2022 and R2023a). If I add a “ButtonDownFcn” to the plots (see example below), then the modified...
Nicholas (28 days 19 hours ago): Yair, Changing the desktop help options did not solve the issue. Though, it’s unclear how I could change these options in the Runtime, if that’s what you meant? I should...
Yair Altman (32 days 14 hours ago): @Francisco – this is one of those cases where you should ask MathWorks support. After all, you’re trying to use a supported Matlab functionality when you encountered...
Francisco Campos (33 days 2 hours ago): Hello, thanks for all your work that has been immensely useful for those working in the Matlab environment. I have been trying to replace matlabcontrol with the official...
Yair Altman (37 days 3 hours ago): Kei – this is possible, I believe that I saw this ability somewhere, a few years ago. I don’t remember exactly where, it will require a bit of research, but...
Kei (37 days 5 hours ago): Hello Yair Thank you for this great article. I would like to freeze first two columns in uitable. Do you know if such option is available? Since looks like this option is not available...
Andrés Aguilar (40 days 17 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
Yair Altman (49 days 15 hours ago): I posted my treeTable utility 10 years ago for anyone to use freely, on an as-is basis, without any warranty, updates or support. If you need any customization or assistance...