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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 »

Nitin (4 hours 40 minutes ago): Thanks for the great help
Stéphane Issartel (6 days 12 hours ago): Both .mlx and .mlapp file format seem to be “Open Packaging Conventions” formatted files. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Open_Packaging_Conventions#...
Cris Luengo (7 days 6 hours ago): Neither set(0,’HideUndocumented’,’off’ ) nor classhandle(…) work any more (testing on R2021a). However, it is possible to convert a HG2 handle to a struct, and see all the...
Yair Altman (15 days 13 hours ago): yes – assuming you created the spinner using the javacomponent function, you can modify the Position and Units properties of the component’s container handle, which...
Santiago (15 days 20 hours ago): Hi Yair. Is it possible to modify the spinner’s position (x, y, w, h) after it has been created? I’m trying to do it during a SizeChangedFcn callback. Thanks.
Yair Altman (20 days 0 hours ago): No. In the new web-based uifigures you need to use uihtml and uistyle to update the table appearance.
Santiago (20 days 0 hours ago): Hi , Yair. ¿Do the HTML options still work in the uitables created with the app designer?
Yair Altman (53 days 6 hours ago): Yes, the report is still available. You can get it here.
Luis Santiago (53 days 8 hours ago): Hi Yair. Your articles are excellent and, even now, they are still applicable. Is the uitable report still available? I’d really like getting it.
Adam D Danz (60 days 4 hours ago): Opps…. I was using the wrong syntax: MarkedClean is an EventName and I was accidentally treating it as a PropertyName. Also, ignore the “MarkedDirty” reference...
Adam D Danz (60 days 5 hours ago): Yair, thanks for your unmatched contributions to exploring Matlab under the hood. I noticed that listeners responding to MarkedClean in geoaxes throw an error even though...
Adee Ran (60 days 11 hours ago): Yair, once again, I find the answer to the issue that annoy me is in your site since long ago. Both the highlighting control and focus control (using uicontrol() ) are simple,...
Yair Altman (77 days 2 hours ago): @Tucker – AFAIK markedClean still works even in the very latest release. In recent years MathWorks added a few documented hooks for trapping axes updates etc., but the...
Tucker Downs (77 days 18 hours ago): Hi Yair, Is “markedClean” still your recommendation for wanting to redraw graphics primitive like objects? I’m working on trying to make some native-like...
Yair Altman (97 days 6 hours ago): It is not clear from your comment what command you’re trying to use. You basically have 4 alternatives: To use the builtin saveas function To use the builtin...