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Customizing the standard figure toolbar, menubar

The standard figure toolbar and menubar can easily be modified to include a list of recently-used files.

January 9, 2013 12 Comments Read More »

Uitable customization report

Matlab's uitable can be customized in many different ways. A detailed report explains how.

August 3, 2011 76 Comments Read More »

Uitable sorting

Matlab's uitables can be sortable using simple undocumented features

July 26, 2011 45 Comments Read More »

An interesting uitree utility

ExploreStruct is a utility that shows how custom uitrees can be integrated in Matlab GUI

March 30, 2011 5 Comments Read More »

Hierarchical Systems with UDD

UDD objects can be grouped in structured hierarchies - this article explains how

March 2, 2011 10 Comments Read More »

uisplittool & uitogglesplittool callbacks

Matlab's undocumented uisplittool and uitogglesplittool are powerful toolbar controls - this article explains how to customize their behavior

December 15, 2010 3 Comments Read More »

uisplittool & uitogglesplittool

Matlab's undocumented uisplittool and uitogglesplittool are powerful controls that can easily be added to Matlab toolbars - this article explains how

December 8, 2010 9 Comments Read More »

Uitab customizations

This article shows several customizations that can be done to Matlab's undocumented tab-panels functionality

November 17, 2010 9 Comments Read More »

Uitab colors, icons and images

Matlab's semi-documented tab panels can be customized using some undocumented hacks

November 10, 2010 42 Comments Read More »

Customizing uitree nodes – part 2

This article shows how Matlab GUI tree nodes can be customized with checkboxes and similar controls

September 1, 2010 61 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 7 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 10 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 10 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 15 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 18 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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