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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 »

Jianfei (31 days 7 hours ago): I have tried the MathWorks CheckBoxList in Matlab 2015b. For whatever the reason, I can’t change the font properties. I can change the font color, but changing font properties...
Donato Coppola (37 days 2 hours ago): Hi Yair, I have a problem with the double format. When I run the treeTable function, the numbers in double format cells are displayed with comma as decimal separator. How can...
Kim (42 days 17 hours ago): Yair, the following didn’t work for me either: jh.setBorderPainted(false); Regards, Kim
Adil (44 days 18 hours ago): Thank you for the blog, it was useful for me. I have a file named App_project.mlapp.zip and when I extract it through Winzip it gives all the files exactly as you described above. I...
Mr Ashley Trowell (47 days 4 hours ago): Thank you so much for this analysis. Also, I find it somewhat horrifying. The take away seems to be to use && / || and NOT and / or. Thanks a bunch! ~Ashley
Matt (52 days 5 hours ago): Late reply I know, but you can call custom shortcuts with alt-#. Hold down Alt to see what number is assigned to the shortcuts you’ve created. Now if there was a way to create a...
James (60 days 0 hours ago): Is there a way to change the location of the window? They pop up at random locations and the user has to chase them down.
Robin (60 days 8 hours ago): Hi Yair, This has been a great help. With the removal of com.mathworks sometime in the future (as announced in R2020b), is there an alternative? For me, just getting a preference...
Eric Dziekonski (82 days 6 hours ago): This is fantastic! Thanks everyone! To get access to CEF on 2019b, I had to take the advise of Jeffery Devereux and Xiangrui Li. warning off MATLAB:structOnObject % suppress...
Yair Altman (82 days 12 hours ago): jPanel1.setParent(jPanel2) will reparent jPanel1 (and similarly any Java component/container) inside jPanel2 (any Java container). While this might work, it seems to me to be an...
Eivind (83 days 3 hours ago): Hi, Thanks for a great function! I was trying to put the main panel of my figure into a scrollable panel with the goal of zooming into the panel using shift+scroll and scrolling up...
Yair Altman (97 days 13 hours ago): There is no direct way to replicate the CW in a GUI window, you’ll need to display the text in the GUI using your program logic. Here is one possible implementation that...
Sunki Reddy Gunugu (99 days 10 hours ago): hi 1.i would like to know how the error in command window of matlab is captured and displayed in the GUI with the same color in CW 2. Is their any way to replicate the...
Matthias Brenneis (102 days 5 hours ago): Hi, thank you so much for the inspiring work and comments! My issue is: As soon as the panel gets an axes, the panel is no longer transparent: f =...
Collin (122 days 3 hours ago): Yair, In 2020a Mathworks added this semi-useful class matlab.ui.internal.JavaMigrati onTools Which contains static methods to call javacomponent, actxcontrol or to get an...