Undocumented function

The HotLinks feature

feature('HotLinks') can be used to temporarily disable hyperlinks and other markups in the Matlab console.

October 24, 2017 One Comment Read More »

Runtime code instrumentation

Conditional breakpoints can be used to instrument code with user-specified code.

September 28, 2017 3 Comments Read More »

MathWorks-solicited Java survey

MathWorks is soliciting user feedbacks about the use of Java components in Matlab programs.

March 23, 2017 2 Comments Read More »

Checking status of warning messages in MEX

Undocumented Mex functions can be used to extract the state of Matlab warnings in run-time.

December 21, 2016 No Comments Read More »

A few parfor tips

The parfor (parallel for) loops can be made faster using a few simple tips.

July 6, 2016 6 Comments Read More »

MEX ctrl-c interrupt

An undocumented MEX function can help interrupt running MEX functions.

June 15, 2016 5 Comments Read More »

Enabling user callbacks during zoom/pan

Matlab zoom, pan and rotate3d modes hijack the user's figure callbacks, but this can be overridden.

October 28, 2015 14 Comments Read More »

Hyperlink text labels

Hyperlink labels can easily be added to Matlab GUIs.

October 21, 2015 5 Comments Read More »

Adding dynamic properties to graphic handles

It is easy and very useful to attach dynamic properties to Matlab graphics objects in run-time.

September 16, 2015 4 Comments Read More »

General-use object copy

Matlab's dual internal serialization/deserialization functions can be used to create duplicates of any object.

May 6, 2015 15 Comments Read More »

Rolf (18 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 (25 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 (26 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 (48 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 (77 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 (77 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 (94 days 5 hours ago): more than 10 years later it helps me after struggling few hours, so thanks you very much !
Yair Altman (95 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 (95 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 (98 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 (108 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 (108 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 (109 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 (109 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...
Michelle Kline (110 days 1 hour ago): *edit* tip about fopen(), not about fwrite(). ‘Wb’ vs. ‘wb’