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Draggable plot data-tips

Matlab's standard plot data-tips can be customized to enable dragging, without being limitted to be adjacent to their data-point.

October 23, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Extending a Java class with UDD

Java classes can easily be extended in Matlab, using pure Matlab code.

March 29, 2012 14 Comments Read More »

Creating a simple UDD class

This article explains how to create and test custom UDD packages, classes and objects

February 23, 2011 6 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 »

Undocumented cursorbar object

Matlab's internal undocumented graphics.cursorbar object can be used to present dynamic data-tip cross-hairs

September 29, 2010 40 Comments Read More »

New information on HG2

More information on Matlab's new HG2 object-oriented handle-graphics system

May 10, 2010 One Comment Read More »

uiundo – Matlab's undocumented undo/redo manager

The built-in uiundo function provides easy yet undocumented access to Matlab's powerful undo/redo functionality. This article explains its usage.

October 29, 2009 2 Comments Read More »

Displaying hidden handle properties

I present two ways of checking undocumented hidden properties in Matlab Handle Graphics (HG) handles

May 5, 2009 15 Comments Read More »

Sunham (2 days 15 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 5 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 (12 days 16 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 7 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 (13 days 7 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 0 hours ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
Michelle Kline (14 days 0 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 (26 days 12 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 3 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 (31 days 22 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 (32 days 10 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 (36 days 10 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 (36 days 13 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 0 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
Yair Altman (48 days 22 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...