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Improving graphics interactivity

Matlab R2018b added default axes mouse interactivity at the expense of performance. Luckily, we can speed-up the default axes.

April 22, 2019 No Comments Read More »

Reverting axes controls in figure toolbar

In R2018b the axes controls were removed from the figure toolbar, but this can be reverted.

December 23, 2018 6 Comments Read More »

Toolbar button labels

GUI toolbar button labels can easily be set and customized using underlying Java components.

January 8, 2018 No Comments Read More »

Customizing figure toolbar background

Setting the figure toolbar's background color can easily be done using just a tiny bit of Java magic powder. This article explains how.

February 20, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Customizing the standard figure toolbar, menubar

The standard figure toolbar and menubar can easily be modified to include a list of recently-used files.

January 9, 2013 12 Comments Read More »

ScreenCapture utility

The ScreenCapture utility uses purely-documented Matlab for capturing a screen region as an image from within Matlab.

August 15, 2012 35 Comments Read More »

handle2struct, struct2handle & Matlab 8.0

This article explains how we can use a couple of undocumented functions in Matlab GUI, and what we can learn from this about Matlab's future.

December 29, 2010 11 Comments Read More »

uisplittool & uitogglesplittool callbacks

Matlab's undocumented uisplittool and uitogglesplittool are powerful toolbar controls - this article explains how to customize their behavior

December 15, 2010 3 Comments Read More »

uisplittool & uitogglesplittool

Matlab's undocumented uisplittool and uitogglesplittool are powerful controls that can easily be added to Matlab toolbars - this article explains how

December 8, 2010 9 Comments Read More »

Modifying default toolbar/menubar actions

The default Matlab figure toolbar and menu actions can easily be modified using simple pure-Matlab code. This article explains how.

June 2, 2010 9 Comments Read More »

Iliya Romm (9 days 11 hours ago): To anybody attempting this in R2019b (and later?): unless you specify the image size, nothing will be shown!. A solution is presented in this answer str = [''];
Yair Altman (13 days 12 hours ago): @Don – you can control the components of controllib.widget.Slider using its internal properties, as follows: >> warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % avoid warning >>...
Don (13 days 14 hours ago): I do not see a visible (on/off) property. Is there a way hide/unhide these, specifically controllib.widget.Slider. I currently just use Position and move it out of visible range. Also,...
Philip Howard (20 days 7 hours ago): Yair, Thank you for your post. Is it possible to use Matlab functions inside the SQL query for method using sqlite-jdbc? I see here that you can create custom callback...
Yair Altman (28 days 12 hours ago): The default Java Look&Feel for UI buttons paints the border together with the contents, and apparently prevents changing both of them together (reference). Changing to a...
Jacob (28 days 22 hours ago): So, I’m having trouble finding information on this. If I change the border of a button, then change the background color, the border resets. Then I am not able to change the...
Sky (31 days 5 hours ago): Matlab seems to catch on to mustBeMember and offers tab completion options when it is used. classdef foo < matlab.mixin.SetGet properties Coordinates {mustBeMember(Coordinates,{...
Yair Altman (37 days 11 hours ago): Philip – perhaps you forgot to update the table’s model to a DefaultStyleTableModel. In any case, this topic is way outside the scope of this blog, which is...
Philip (37 days 11 hours ago): Yair, I am a bit of a novice at programming with Java. Would you please expound a bit more or provide an example on how to use JIDE’s CellStyle in MATLAB? I have successfully...
Yair Altman (41 days 22 hours ago): @Philip – in the Java-based uitable you can use JIDE’s CellStyle to customize specific cells. Refer to JIDE’s documentation for details. In the web-based...
Philip (41 days 23 hours ago): Yair, You may have addressed this already in the past, if so, please kindly point me to the appropriate article(s). My issue is with creating a table which has (not column but) cell...
Yair Altman (46 days 21 hours ago): The javacomponent function returns 2 objects: a Java reference and a Matlab container. Simply set the value of the Units property of the Matlab container to...
Neeks (47 days 2 hours ago): This looks elegant. Thank you. One issue I am not able to sort out – on maximizing the figure window the location of “javax.swing.JSliderR 21; object does not scale...
Xiangrui Li (51 days 18 hours ago): Hi Yair, Thank you for digging into this. It seems I need following to get CEF container = struct(controllerProps.Platfor mHost);
Yair Altman (52 days 5 hours ago): Matlab recently modified the internal structure. You can now access the web-window (CEF) object as follows: hFig = uifigure(...); warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % suppress...