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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 One Comment 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 »

SKM (19 days 12 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 (49 days 22 hours ago): @Ken – I cannot reproduce your report, it works as expected for me even on R2022b
Yair Altman (50 days 1 hour ago): try to use the waitfor function
Danila Berezin (54 days 13 hours ago): Hi I have a similar issue. Did you find a workaround for this?
Ken Johnson (63 days 2 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 (67 days 17 hours ago): It works perfectly. Thanks so much.
Yair Altman (67 days 22 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 (68 days 14 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 (86 days 18 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 (86 days 18 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 (86 days 18 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 (91 days 23 hours 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 (92 days 12 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 (105 days 0 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 (105 days 4 hours ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});