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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

August 4, 2017 No Comments Read More »

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 »
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  • Collin (5 days 12 hours ago):
  • Collin (6 days 8 hours ago): Creating a Matlab wrapper for JCEF, if anybody wants to collaborate https://github.com/RocketWrenc h/Browser Collin
  • Iñigo (28 days 6 hours ago): Thanks Yair. I didn’t realize it was posted just above. It would be great to know about a solution soon
  • Yair Altman (29 days 13 hours ago): @Iñigo – your query is related to Seth’s question above. We can access the currently-browsed URL in JavaScript (for example: jBrowserPanel.executeScript...
  • Iñigo (31 days 5 hours ago): I am looking for setting a UI that allows following process: opening a web site, navigate inside this web site and at some specific moments (i.e. when the figure is closed or a button...
  • Nicholas (38 days 10 hours ago): Yair, this works wonderfully! I can’t thank you enough!
  • Collin (40 days 14 hours ago): Seth Good point, I am using 2022b, mathworks seems to have started using CEF browsers from 2019a, best I can tell. take a look at the package com.mathworks.toolbox.matla...
  • Seth (41 days 6 hours ago): Collin, What version of MATLAB are you using?
  • Collin (46 days 12 hours ago): Seth, I have had some success executing javascript that requires no return value by executing it directly (sort of) on the org.cef.browser.CefBrowser that a...
  • Coo Coo (48 days 7 hours ago): FFT-based convolution is circular whereas MATLAB’s conv functions have several options (‘valid’, ‘same’, ‘full’) but unfortunately not...
  • Seth (48 days 10 hours ago): No luck with removing the space.
  • Seth (48 days 12 hours ago): The javascript code works fine running the application from the 2019b desktop version and the 2016b deployed version.
  • Seth (48 days 12 hours ago): I have been using this browser functionality in 2016b because it works fully in deployed applications in that version. However, because of Java 7 being flagged as a security risk, I...
  • Yair Altman (48 days 12 hours ago): I’ve never tested javascript callbacks, but perhaps you should try removing the extra space after the “matlab:” protocol specifier. Does it make any difference?
  • Seth (48 days 13 hours ago): I have been using this functionality in 2016b since it works in deployed applications and have not had a reason to need to upgrade but with java 7 being flagged as a security risk I am...
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