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Enabling user callbacks during zoom/pan

Matlab zoom, pan and rotate3d modes hijack the user's figure callbacks, but this can be overridden.

October 28, 2015 14 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 »

Multi-column (grid) legend

This article explains how to use undocumented axes listeners for implementing multi-column plot legends

February 7, 2011 5 Comments Read More »

Accessing plot brushed data

Plot data brushing can be accessed programmatically using very simple pure-Matlab code

October 6, 2010 25 Comments Read More »

Legend '-DynamicLegend' semi-documented feature

The built-in Matlab legend function has a very useful semi-documented feature for automatic dynamic update, which is explained here.

June 4, 2009 21 Comments Read More »

Nina797 (1 day 5 hours ago): Hey Yair, I really appreciate your fantastic blog! I had no idea these amazing features were out there, and many of them are exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks again!
Yair Altman (45 days 5 hours ago): see the details in my reply above
Gehan (45 days 5 hours ago): The link at https://www.mathworks.com/matl abcentral/fileexchange/30672-m xgetpropertyptr no longer contain the files mxGetPropertyPtr.c mxGetPropertyPtr.h I downloaded the folder....
Yair Altman (45 days 5 hours ago): I believe that you are referring to James Tursa’s submission – you can get it here: https://www.mathworks.com/matl abcentral/fileexchange/30672-m xgetpropertyptr....
Gehan Abouelseoud (45 days 5 hours ago): These files are no longer available what can I do? mxGetPropertyPtr.c mxGetPropertyPtr.h
Yair Altman (90 days 10 hours ago): @Bob – you are mistaken: s=warning(...) returns the warnings state as it was before the state was modified, so my code is correct. There is no need for a separate call to...
Bob Pownalll (92 days 4 hours ago): Thanks! I was trying to figure out how to do exactly this (i.e. Use a try / catch block with something that generated a warning, not an error) and you pointed me to a solution!...
Gianmarco (113 days 10 hours ago): Hi Yair, what about if I would like to set a specific background and font color to the table row header?
Antonio (133 days 10 hours ago): Note Intel’s MKL implementations of BLAS/LAPACK are already multi-threaded, so it is likely that you won’t achieve a vast improvement (the overall performance could even...
Yair Altman (177 days 8 hours ago): which Matlab version are you using?
Matlab-user (177 days 9 hours ago): I am trying to do it using uipushtool since uisplittool is not supported anymore. I am able to insert the image icon in the toolbar, but not sure how to get the dropdown (trying...
Yair Altman (202 days 4 hours ago): @Peter – I’m happy to hear that you found my work useful. Feel free to use my algorithm and code for any non-commercial research usage. I just ask that you add...
Niko (210 days 3 hours ago): jTabGroup = getappdata(handle(hTabGroup),' JTabbedPane'); doesn’t work anymore in R2023b 🙁 when i do jTabGroup = findjobj(hTabGroup,'class','MJ TabbedPane'); I get an object of...
Peter Raahauge (212 days 7 hours ago): Hi Yair, I have a copyright question, and a comment to your statement above: “the speed remains nearly unaffected when you pre-allocate data properly.” One of my...
Bamby1313 (218 days 3 hours ago): Now you can use arguments validation block function output = myFunction(input1,input2) arguments (Input) input1 double {mustBeLessThan(input1,10)} = 5 input2 double...