Optical illusion

Transparent labels

Matlab labels can be set to a transparent background as well as padding.

May 4, 2016 2 Comments Read More »

Hyperlink text labels

Hyperlink labels can easily be added to Matlab GUIs.

October 21, 2015 5 Comments Read More »

Auto-completion widget

Matlab includes a variety of undocumented internal controls that can be used for an auto-completion component.

April 29, 2015 23 Comments Read More »

Plot legend title

Titles to plot legends are easy to achieve in HG1 (R2014a or earlier), but much more difficult in HG2 (R2014b or newer).

April 1, 2015 11 Comments Read More »

Frameless (undecorated) figure windows

Matlab figure windows can be made undecorated (borderless, title-less).

March 19, 2015 12 Comments Read More »

Unorthodox checkbox usage

There are various ways to display interactive split-panes in Matlab GUI. Uiextras flex-panels override a checkbox control's CData to display a divider.

January 14, 2015 One Comment Read More »

Transparency in uicontrols

Matlab uicontrols' CData property can be customized to provide background transparency.

December 10, 2014 5 Comments Read More »

HG2 update

HG2 appears to be nearing release. It is now a stable mature system.

May 15, 2013 134 Comments Read More »

uiinspect

uiinspect is a Matlab utility that displays detailed information about an object's methods, properties and callbacks in a single GUI window.

January 23, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Pinning annotations to graphs

Annotation object can be programmatically set at, and pinned-to, plot axes data points.

December 12, 2012 13 Comments Read More »

Mohit (6 days 18 hours ago): Hi Yair, I am trying to change keybindings to certain keys for many systems is there any way that we can change these settings. i can change in window dialogue like...
Jan Kappen (8 days 17 hours ago): @Eric, I’m just curious, is the new chart container class (https://de.mathworks.com/help /matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.ch artcontainer.chartcontainer-cl ass.html) the...
Sam (15 days 3 hours ago): Doesn’t work for me! I am using Matlab 2018a, no different at all, even the exe file size is the same.
Joonas T. Holmi (30 days 19 hours ago): Very good comment Yair! I posted the above function too hastily… I will have to apologize for claiming above that it allows updating MATLAB’s jar files without...
Yair Altman (32 days 15 hours ago): @Claudio – I don’t know exactly what you did in your code, the following works perfectly fine for me on R2020a: jComponent = com.jidesoft.combobox.DateComb oBox;...
Yair Altman (34 days 15 hours ago): Thanks for sharing Joonas – this seems useful indeed. Users who will use your script are probably savvy Java programmers, who don’t need a reminder of the dangers in...
Joonas T. Holmi (34 days 16 hours ago): Yair and others, I found yet another way to add files to Java’s class path. See the function java_class_path_add_before_sta tic(file) below. Benefit of this new method...
Joonas T. Holmi (35 days 23 hours ago): Krishnan, It is ‘java.lang.System.getPro perty‘ and ‘java.lang.System.setPro perty‘. I read that JVM uses ‘java.class.path’ content only...
claudio (43 days 9 hours ago): Hi Yair i’m trying to set default string in DateComboBox to display before selecting date from date panel jElement.getEditor.getEditorCo mponent.setText('Set default date')...
Loren Shure (48 days 17 hours ago): Hi Yair- Very nice example showing people how to delve in – plus a nice heads up for us to always go back and look at our shipping code. Probably feval was the only option...
Michelle Hirsch (51 days 10 hours ago): Thanks Yair, as always, for the thoughtful post. I’ve forwarded it to the folks from both the Statistics team and the Performance team for their input. Happy Pesach!
Maurizio (66 days 12 hours ago): Hi Yair, how can I define a callback for a cell/row/column selection? In createTable you can define a data changed callback, but if you simply select a cell, how can you define a...
Donato (68 days 12 hours ago): Hi Yair, it seems that in Matlab R2019b this method doesn’t work. Have you some solutions? Thanks.
Maurizio (69 days 22 hours ago): Thank you Yair, I’ve supposed it, but I was not sure. Maurizio
Yair Altman (70 days 13 hours ago): headers is a simple cell array of strings (column header names). I thought that was pretty obvious from the context… Additional types of uitable customizations are...