uicontrol

Listbox layout customization

Matlab's listbox layout can be modified to display multiple item columns and different inter-cell margins.

November 13, 2013 14 Comments Read More »

Editable combo-box

Matlab's popup menu (combo-box) control is quite limited in its abilities. This article explains how we can work around these limitations.

October 9, 2013 20 Comments Read More »

Editbox data input validation

Undocumented features of Matlab editbox uicontrols enable immediate user-input data validation

October 2, 2013 7 Comments Read More »

Customizing editboxes

Matlab's editbox can be customized in many useful manners

September 25, 2013 9 Comments Read More »

Rich-contents log panel

Matlab listboxes and editboxes can be used to display rich-contents HTML-formatted strings, which is ideal for log panels.

September 18, 2013 15 Comments Read More »

JTattoo look-and-feel demo

A demo GUI that shows the effects of using different look-and-feels, including the JTatoo library, is presented.

March 20, 2013 13 Comments Read More »

Images in Matlab uicontrols & labels

Images can be added to Matlab controls and labels in a variety of manners, documented and undocumented.

October 17, 2012 29 Comments Read More »

Panel-level uicontrols

Matlab's uipanel contains a hidden handle to the title label, which can be modified into a checkbox or radio-button control

November 24, 2010 17 Comments Read More »

The javacomponent function

Matlab's built-in javacomponent function can be used to display Java components in Matlab application - this article details its usages and limitations

August 4, 2010 68 Comments Read More »

Inactive Control Tooltips & Event Chaining

Inactive Matlab uicontrols cannot normally display their tooltips. This article shows how to do this with a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks.

February 24, 2010 8 Comments Read More »

Nicholas (9 hours 44 minutes ago): Hello Yair, Have you, or anyone else, had an opportunity to try this demo in R2022a/b? I cannot get the HTMLBrowserPanel object to update with html text (nor with an html file, if...
Marcel (12 days 21 hours ago): Hi, I am trying to set the legend to Static, but this command seems not to work in R2022a anymore: set(gca,’LegendColorbarL isteners’,[]); Any ideas? THANKS / marcel
Gres (13 days 1 hour ago): In 2018b, you can get the icons by calling [hh,icons,plots,txt] = legend({‘Line 1’});
Yair Altman (14 days 20 hours ago): @Mitchell – in most cases the user wants a single string identifier for the computer, that uniquely identifies it with a distinct fingerprint that is different from any...
Mitchell (15 days 5 hours ago): Great post! I’m not very familiar with the network interfaces being referenced here, but it seems like the java-based cross-platform method concatenates all network...
Yair Altman (17 days 23 hours ago): Dani – You can use jViewport.setViewPosition(java .awt.Point(0,0)) as I showed in earlier comments here
dani (18 days 18 hours ago): hi!! how i can set the horizontal scrollbar to the leftside when appearing! now it set to right side of text
Yair Altman (27 days 14 hours ago): Dom – call drawnow *just before* you set hLine.MarkerHandle.FaceColorTy pe to 'truecoloralpha'. Also, you made a typo in your code: it’s truecoloralpha, not...
Dom (28 days 13 hours ago): Yair I have tried your code with trucoloralpha and the markers do not appear transparent in R2021b, same as for Oliver.
Yair Altman (31 days 21 hours ago): Ren – This is usually the expected behavior, which avoids unnecessary duplications of the Excel process in CPU/memory. If you want to kill the process you can always run...
Yair Altman (32 days 10 hours ago): When you use plot() without hold(‘on’), each new plot() clears the axes and draws a new line, so your second plot() of p2 caused the first plot() line (p1) to be...
Cesim Dumlu (38 days 18 hours ago): Hello. I am trying to do a gradient plot for multiple functions to be displayed on the same axes and each one is colorcoded by respective colordata, using the same scaling. The...
Yair Altman (46 days 21 hours ago): @Veronica – you are using the new version of uitree, which uses HTML-based uifigures, and my post was about the Java-based uitree which uses legacy Matlab figures. For...
Veronica Taurino (46 days 21 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
Veronica Taurino (46 days 21 hours ago): Hello, I am just trying to change the uitree node name as you suggested: txt1 = 'abra'; txt2 = 'kadabra'; node.setName([txt1,txt2]); >> "Unrecognized method, property, or...