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 »

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 20 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...