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 »

Rolf (18 days 6 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 (25 days 23 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 (26 days 4 hours 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 (48 days 6 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
Eric Delgado (77 days 8 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 (77 days 8 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 (94 days 6 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (95 days 4 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 (95 days 22 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 (98 days 16 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 (108 days 7 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 (108 days 18 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 (109 days 9 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 (109 days 9 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 (110 days 2 hours ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’