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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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Recent Comments
  • Amin zaami (2 days 22 hours ago): I have the same problem as Nicholas, The function works fine on R2022, but when compiled it fails (I used com.mathworks.mlwidgets.help.L ightweightHelpPanel), I tried compiling...
  • Rolf (21 days 5 hours ago): Disclosure: This comes from the developer/vendor of the Code Checker for MATLAB. Have a look at the Code Checker for MATLAB by MonkeyProof Solutions which has many such (configurable)...
  • Yair Altman (28 days 22 hours ago): In theory you could use the data: URI scheme (e.g. .load('data:text/html,<html ><body>Hello world</body></html>')), but for some reason it doesn’t work well in...
  • Sebastian (29 days 4 hours ago): Thanks for your update to the now unsupported `HTMLBrowserPanel`. I tried to replace it with the `LightweightHelpPanel` but the application I am working on is showing generated...
  • Leuze (51 days 5 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
  • Eric Delgado (80 days 7 hours ago): Hey Yair, I think your site is the right place to share that I wrote ccTools, a lib that allows a lot of customizations of Matlab built-in web components (such as uifigure,...
  • Eric Delgado (80 days 7 hours ago): Hey guys, first of all, thanks to @Yair, your site saved me a lot of times! 🙂 That’s why I am sharing that I wrote m2mlapp (*.m => *.mlapp) file conversion, that...
  • François (97 days 5 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
  • Yair Altman (98 days 3 hours ago): I am not familiar with a universal catch-all tab-completion mechanism for all functions, and it also doesn’t make much sense to me, because different functions use...
  • Arye (98 days 21 hours ago): hi, is there a universal functionSignature.json file that will allow my to get the function hints when opening brackets of my funcs? something that automaticly recognize my function...
  • Sunham (101 days 16 hours ago): This is an old article, but the issue persists even in 2023. 2023a: z = mat2cell(1:1e6,1,repmat(1,1,1e 6)); f = @() cellfun(‘isempty’, z); g = @() cellfun(@isempty,z);...
  • Yair Altman (111 days 6 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 (111 days 17 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 (112 days 8 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 (112 days 8 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...
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