uicontrol

Matlab GUI training seminars – Zurich, 29-30 August 2017

Advanced Matlab training courses on Matlab User Interfaces (GUI) will be presented in Zurich Switzerland on 29-30 August, 2017

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Icon images & text in Matlab uicontrols

HTML can be used to add image icons to Matlab listbox and popup (drop-down) controls.

September 28, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Aligning uicontrol contents

Matlab uicontrols can often be customized using plain HTML/CSS, without need for advanced Java.

September 22, 2016 8 Comments Read More »

Listbox selection hacks

Matlab listbox selection can be customized in a variety of undocumented ways.

July 13, 2016 4 Comments Read More »

Smart listbox & editbox scrollbars

Matlab listbox and multi-line editbox scrollbars can easily be made smarter, for improved appearance.

April 20, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

Sliders in Matlab GUI

Professional-looking slider controls can easily be integrated in Matlab GUI.

June 10, 2015 59 Comments Read More »

Unorthodox checkbox usage

There are various ways to display interactive split-panes in Matlab GUI. Uiextras flex-panels override a checkbox control's CData to display a divider.

January 14, 2015 One Comment Read More »

Customizing combobox popups

Matlab combobox (dropdown) popups can be customized in a variety of ways.

September 24, 2014 8 Comments Read More »

Customizing listbox/combobox items

Matlab listboxes can be customized using custom Java cell-renderers.

September 17, 2014 2 Comments Read More »

Undocumented button highlighting

Matlab button uicontrols can easily be highlighted by simply setting their Value property.

February 5, 2014 One Comment Read More »

Yair Altman (8 days 7 hours ago): Robot only runs when you tell it to run a command such as keyPress. If you don’t tell it to run a command, it uses no CPU, so there’s no need to remove the Robot...
Eric (8 days 18 hours ago): Hey @Kevin, can you share your code about create group of figures in the AppContainer? The container of multiples uifigures could be an amazing improvement over AppDesigner and its...
Elsa Smith (9 days 9 hours ago): I recently used java.awt.Robot to perform GUI testing on MATLAB and found it to be an extremely easy and useful way to control mouse movements.
Elsa Smith (9 days 9 hours ago): I’m suspecting that the slow performance of my GUI may be due to the use of java.awt.Robot. Is there a way to cancel/stop/remove the robot after it has been created, or is...
Michelle Kline (10 days 2 hours ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’
Michelle Kline (10 days 2 hours ago): Thank you, Yair! With this previously-unknown-to-me tip about fwrite() performance, you have saved me literally hours of processing time. Michelle Kline Department of...
Alessandro Beda (22 days 14 hours ago): I found what I think is a bug related to this (tested in R2022 and R2023a). If I add a “ButtonDownFcn” to the plots (see example below), then the modified...
Nicholas (24 days 5 hours ago): Yair, Changing the desktop help options did not solve the issue. Though, it’s unclear how I could change these options in the Runtime, if that’s what you meant? I should...
Yair Altman (28 days 0 hours ago): @Francisco – this is one of those cases where you should ask MathWorks support. After all, you’re trying to use a supported Matlab functionality when you encountered...
Francisco Campos (28 days 12 hours ago): Hello, thanks for all your work that has been immensely useful for those working in the Matlab environment. I have been trying to replace matlabcontrol with the official...
Yair Altman (32 days 12 hours ago): Kei – this is possible, I believe that I saw this ability somewhere, a few years ago. I don’t remember exactly where, it will require a bit of research, but...
Kei (32 days 15 hours ago): Hello Yair Thank you for this great article. I would like to freeze first two columns in uitable. Do you know if such option is available? Since looks like this option is not available...
Andrés Aguilar (36 days 2 hours ago): Hello, has anyone tried to change the language of the DateComboBox? For example English -> French ————&# 8212;—- January -> Janvier April...
Yair Altman (45 days 0 hours ago): I posted my treeTable utility 10 years ago for anyone to use freely, on an as-is basis, without any warranty, updates or support. If you need any customization or assistance...
JY (45 days 1 hour ago): Yair, could you respond to this question please? I’m also finding it difficult to implement such a multi-hierarchy table. Thanks