uicontrol

Spicing up Matlab uicontrol tooltips

Matlab uicontrol tooltips can be spiced-up using HTML and CSS, including fonts, colors, tables and images

May 27, 2009 20 Comments Read More »

Uicontrol callbacks

This post details undocumented callbacks exposed by the underlying Java object of Matlab uicontrols, that can be used to modify the control's behavior in a multitude of different events

May 1, 2009 69 Comments Read More »

Button customization

Matlab's button uicontrols (pushbutton and togglebutton) are basically wrappers for a Java Swing JButton object. This post describes how the buttons can be customized using this Java object in ways

April 24, 2009 33 Comments Read More »

UISplitPane

UISplitPane was recently chosen as Matlab Central's Pick of the Week. Here I detail its use of some undocumented Matlab features.

March 28, 2009 18 Comments Read More »

Adding a context-menu to a uitree

uitree is an undocumented Matlab function, which does not easily enable setting a context-menu. Here's how to do it.

March 27, 2009 35 Comments Read More »

Setting line position in an edit-box uicontrol

Matlab uicontrols have many useful features that are only available via Java. Here's how to access them.

March 26, 2009 21 Comments Read More »

HTML support in Matlab uicomponents

Matlab uicomponents support HTML and CSS, enabling colored items, superscript/subscript, fonts, bold/italic/underline and many other modifications

March 21, 2009 69 Comments Read More »

Amin zaami (9 days 6 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 (27 days 13 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 (35 days 6 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 (35 days 11 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 (57 days 12 hours ago): Hello, I would like to add a new object into SLDD and display columns according to my object properties <>
Eric Delgado (86 days 15 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 (86 days 15 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 (103 days 13 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (104 days 11 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 (105 days 5 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 (107 days 23 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 (117 days 14 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 (118 days 1 hour 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 (118 days 16 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 (118 days 16 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...