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 »

SKM (17 days 14 hours ago): It is 10 years since the original article, but I would like to bring to attention that such issues have not yet been resolved. For example, programmatically opening and closing files in...
Yair Altman (48 days 0 hours ago): @Ken – I cannot reproduce your report, it works as expected for me even on R2022b
Yair Altman (48 days 3 hours ago): try to use the waitfor function
Danila Berezin (52 days 15 hours ago): Hi I have a similar issue. Did you find a workaround for this?
Ken Johnson (61 days 4 hours ago): Why does the second catch block in this code example not work? (It works if you restart MATLAB and then omit the first try-catch block.) try a = [0,0;0,0]\[1;1]; catch...
Santiago (65 days 18 hours ago): It works perfectly. Thanks so much.
Yair Altman (66 days 0 hours ago): Santiago – you can get the mouse X,Y positions from the Java eventData object (getX(), getY()), convert this into a point (p=java.awt.Point(x,y)), then use the JTable...
Santiago (66 days 16 hours ago): Hi Yair. I’m using the MouseReleasedCallback but I need to get the indices of the selected cell. I can get them without problems with left clicks but, if I try to do it with...
Yair Altman (84 days 20 hours ago): Adam – perhaps there is a builtin syntax-pane control for uifigures, but I am not aware of one. Perhaps you can try to implement a uihtml panel with a GeSHi...
Yair Altman (84 days 20 hours ago): Marcel – 12 years and ~25 releases since I wrote this article, it is no surprise at all that some things no longer work the same way. In fact, the surprising thing is that...
Yair Altman (84 days 20 hours ago): See the documentation of the uitree function. The text in my article refers to the legacy (Java-based) uitree version, which is not documented, whereas it is documented and...
SOULEYMANE Zakaria (90 days 1 hour ago): Hello. Thank you for sharing. I would like to know if someone could help me with the syntax it takes to use uitree on “Appdesigner”. When I use the syntax you...
Nicholas (90 days 13 hours ago): Hello Yair, Have you, or anyone else, had an opportunity to try this demo in R2022a/b? I cannot get the HTMLBrowserPanel object to update with html text (nor with an html file, if...
Marcel (103 days 2 hours ago): Hi, I am trying to set the legend to Static, but this command seems not to work in R2022a anymore: set(gca,’LegendColorbarL isteners’,[]); Any ideas? THANKS / marcel
Gres (103 days 6 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});