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Getting default HG property values

Matlab has documented how to modify default property values, but not how to get the full list of current defaults. This article explains how to do this.

February 13, 2013 7 Comments Read More »

uiinspect

uiinspect is a Matlab utility that displays detailed information about an object's methods, properties and callbacks in a single GUI window.

January 23, 2013 6 Comments Read More »

Pinning annotations to graphs

Annotation object can be programmatically set at, and pinned-to, plot axes data points.

December 12, 2012 13 Comments Read More »

Accessing plot brushed data

Plot data brushing can be accessed programmatically using very simple pure-Matlab code

October 6, 2010 25 Comments Read More »

JIDE Property Grids

The JIDE components pre-bundled in Matlab enable creating user-customized property grid tables

April 21, 2010 17 Comments Read More »

Accessing the Matlab Editor

The Matlab Editor can be accessed programmatically, for a wide variety of possible uses - this article shows how.

October 19, 2009 50 Comments Read More »

Detecting window focus events

Matlab does not have any documented method to detect window focus events (gain/loss). This article describes an undocumented way to detect such events.

September 9, 2009 41 Comments Read More »

Figure toolbar customizations

Matlab's toolbars can be customized using a combination of undocumented Matlab and Java hacks. This article describes how to customize the Matlab figure toolbar.

September 2, 2009 24 Comments Read More »

Non-textual editor actions

The UIINSPECT utility can be used to expand EditorMacro capabilities to non-text-insertion actions. This is how:

July 17, 2009 10 Comments Read More »

GUIDE customization

Matlab's GUI Design Editor (GUIDE) has several interesting undocumented features. This post describes how to customize GUIDE rulers.

June 10, 2009 8 Comments Read More »
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Recent Comments
  • Yair Altman (1 day 9 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 (1 day 23 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 (8 days 6 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 (16 days 9 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 (16 days 9 hours ago): >> [txt1,txt2] ans = ‘abrakadabra’
  • Veronica Taurino (16 days 10 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...
  • Yair Altman (19 days 10 hours ago): The version of JGraph that you downloaded uses a newer version of Java (11) than the one that Matlab supports (8). You need to either (1) find an earlier version of JGraph that...
  • mrv (19 days 14 hours ago): hello, I used MATLAB 2019b update9, I have add jgraphx.jar to javaclassapth, and restart matlab, but still got errors below: Warning: A Java exception occurred trying to load the...
  • xuejie wu (43 days 10 hours ago): Hi: I’m wondering if i can add my customized section or tab ?
  • Yair Altman (55 days 2 hours ago): @Sagar – use the view(az,el) function to rotate the 3D axes.
  • Sagar Chawla (55 days 2 hours ago): I want to know how to change the x-axis to the z-axis. I mean the position. Like if there is a 3d animated graph then how to change position of the axis. X-axis in place of...
  • Ren (55 days 3 hours ago): I noticed that xlsread will create a hidden and never-dying special server that always has priority when actxGetRunningServer is called. So this cause a problem that no matter how many...
  • Ben Abbott (58 days 17 hours ago): Thanks Yair, it was the second. I didn’t not include the drawnow ()
  • Yair Altman (58 days 21 hours ago): @Ben – it looks perfectly ok (with color gradient and all) on my R2022a… Perhaps you missed some of the steps (e.g. setting the ColorBinding to 'interpolated') or...
  • Ben Abbott (58 days 21 hours ago): The graded color is not working for me using R2021a. The plot “HG2 plot line color, transparency gradient” looks exactly like “Transparent HG2 plot...
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