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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

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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 6 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 57 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 No Comments Read More »

Mohit (6 days 17 hours ago): Hi Yair, I am trying to change keybindings to certain keys for many systems is there any way that we can change these settings. i can change in window dialogue like...
Jan Kappen (8 days 16 hours ago): @Eric, I’m just curious, is the new chart container class (https://de.mathworks.com/help /matlab/ref/matlab.graphics.ch artcontainer.chartcontainer-cl ass.html) the...
Sam (15 days 2 hours ago): Doesn’t work for me! I am using Matlab 2018a, no different at all, even the exe file size is the same.
Joonas T. Holmi (30 days 18 hours ago): Very good comment Yair! I posted the above function too hastily… I will have to apologize for claiming above that it allows updating MATLAB’s jar files without...
Yair Altman (32 days 14 hours ago): @Claudio – I don’t know exactly what you did in your code, the following works perfectly fine for me on R2020a: jComponent = com.jidesoft.combobox.DateComb oBox;...
Yair Altman (34 days 14 hours ago): Thanks for sharing Joonas – this seems useful indeed. Users who will use your script are probably savvy Java programmers, who don’t need a reminder of the dangers in...
Joonas T. Holmi (34 days 15 hours ago): Yair and others, I found yet another way to add files to Java’s class path. See the function java_class_path_add_before_sta tic(file) below. Benefit of this new method...
Joonas T. Holmi (35 days 22 hours ago): Krishnan, It is ‘java.lang.System.getPro perty‘ and ‘java.lang.System.setPro perty‘. I read that JVM uses ‘java.class.path’ content only...
claudio (43 days 8 hours ago): Hi Yair i’m trying to set default string in DateComboBox to display before selecting date from date panel jElement.getEditor.getEditorCo mponent.setText('Set default date')...
Loren Shure (48 days 16 hours ago): Hi Yair- Very nice example showing people how to delve in – plus a nice heads up for us to always go back and look at our shipping code. Probably feval was the only option...
Michelle Hirsch (51 days 9 hours ago): Thanks Yair, as always, for the thoughtful post. I’ve forwarded it to the folks from both the Statistics team and the Performance team for their input. Happy Pesach!
Maurizio (66 days 11 hours ago): Hi Yair, how can I define a callback for a cell/row/column selection? In createTable you can define a data changed callback, but if you simply select a cell, how can you define a...
Donato (68 days 11 hours ago): Hi Yair, it seems that in Matlab R2019b this method doesn’t work. Have you some solutions? Thanks.
Maurizio (69 days 21 hours ago): Thank you Yair, I’ve supposed it, but I was not sure. Maurizio
Yair Altman (70 days 12 hours ago): headers is a simple cell array of strings (column header names). I thought that was pretty obvious from the context… Additional types of uitable customizations are...